Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway PLC
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The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway is a heritage railway operating steam and heritage diesel trains over 12.5 miles between Cheltenham Racecourse in the South and Laverton in the North. The headquarters are at Toddington which has been the company's operating base since 1981. The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway plc (GWSR) operates the railway, which is owned by its shareholders. The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway runs along a part of the former Great Western Railway's mainline from Birmingham to Cheltenham, via Stratford-upon-Avon. The line commands wonderful views of the sleepy hamlets and villages, as it runs though the beautiful Cotswold countryside. The line was primarily built (1900-1906) to improve through services from Birmingham to Bristol and the West Country. It also carried fruit from the highly productive farming areas both in the Cotswolds and the Vale of Evesham. The line closed to local passenger traffic on 5th March 1960. The line continued in use for goods services until a derailment at Winchcombe on 25th August 1976 closed the line. Following early work by a Society primarily aimed at trying to keep the line open, the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway was formed in 1981 with the aim of one day restoring this line from Stratford Race Course to Cheltenham Racecourse back to its former glory. Although originally double tracked throughout, by the time the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway purchased the track bed most of the buildings and all the track had gone. Following purchase of the track bed from Broadway to Cheltenham Race Course, we established our operating base at Toddington and started re-construction. By 1984 work had advanced sufficiently to allow the first public train to operate over a ¼ mile of track. The line has gradually been extended to the current 12.5 miles. Most of this work has been completed by volunteers, using revenue generated from our operations and shareholder capital.
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