Cam and Dursley railway station

Cam and Dursley railway station is a railway station serving the large village of Cam and the market town of Dursley in Gloucestershire, England. It is located on the main Bristol-Birmingham line, between Yate and Gloucester, at a site close to where Coaley Junction railway station was situated from 1856 to 1965.

Cam and Dursley
General information
Location	Coaley, Stroud England
Coordinates	51.718°N 2.359°W / 51.718; -2.359
Grid reference	SO753021
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CDU
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Railtrack
Key dates
14 May 1994	Opened for limited service
30 May 1994	Opened for full service
Passengers
2020/21	42,818
2021/22	0.132 million
2022/23	0.183 million
2023/24	0.208 million
2024/25	0.239 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Bristol and Gloucester Railway
Gloucester–Newport line (SWR) to Newport Gloucester Gloucester (Eastgate) Birmingham & Gloucester Rly (MR) to Birmingham Tuffley loop line  M5  Haresfield Golden Valley line (GWR) to Swindon Stonehouse (Bristol Road) Stonehouse & Nailsworth Rly (MR) to Nailsworth/Stroud Stroudwater Navigation Frocester Cam & Dursley Coaley Junction Dursley & Midland Junction Rly (MR) to Dursley  M5  Berkeley Road Sharpness branch line (MR) to Sharpness  M5  Charfield Wickwar Wickwar Tunnel Thornbury branch line (MR) to Thornbury Yate Westerleigh Junction South Wales Main Line (GWR) to London Paddington Coalpit Heath Sidings Ram Hill Colliery Westerleigh Goods Depot  M4  Bristol Parkway Mangotsfield & Bath branch line (MR) to Bath South Wales Main Line (GWR) to Swansea Mangotsfield Goods line to Avonmouth docks Staple Hill Tunnel Staple Hill Filton Abbey Wood Fishponds Avonside Locomotive Works Clifton Extension Rly (GWR & MR) to Avonmouth Kingswood Junction River Frome Atlas Locomotive Works and collieries  M32  Stapleton Road Lawrence Hill Waste Depot Goods Depots Bristol St Philip's Bristol Harbour River Avon (from Bath) (GWR) Temple Meads Goods Depot Great Western Main Line to London Paddington Bristol Temple Meads Bridge over Victoria Street tunnel under St Mary Redcliffe churchyard Bristol Harbour Railway St Philip's Marsh depot River Avon (to the sea) Bristol & North Somerset Rly (GWR) Bristol and Exeter Railway (GWR) to Taunton and Exeter

History

Coaley Junction station was originally the junction for the short Dursley and Midland Junction Railway branch to Cam and Dursley. The station, first known as Dursley Junction, opened to passengers on 17 September 1856. The station had two short platforms on the main line with a very short and sharply curved platform on the branch. Goods facilities were limited, but included a brick goods shed (still in situ) with a crane. The signal box stood at the end of the platform between the branch and mainline.

The branch closed to passenger traffic on 10 September 1962, although the mainline platforms remained open for passengers until 4 January 1965.

Following a campaign for the reopening of Coaley Junction, the new station called Cam and Dursley opened on 14 May 1994, about 420 yards (380 m) north of the original site, although full opening did not occur until 30 May 1994. The new station is unstaffed, and consists of two platforms, linked by a footbridge, a car park covered by CCTV and a bus stop with shelter. Passenger facilities consist of shelters with seats on both platforms and a ticket machine, with passenger help points installed in late 2010.

Passenger services are provided by Great Western Railway on a largely hourly basis on the Bristol to Gloucester route. It is the nearest station to the town of Wotton-under-Edge, which is seven miles away.

Bus services, operated by Stagecoach West, run infrequently to the station as of timetable changes in August 2021. The 65 service runs 5 services, 3 in the morning, 2 in the evening to provide links to Gloucester, via Stonehouse and to Stroud, via Dursley and Uley.

Cam and Dursley Train Station, runs to a GWR timetable that links in with services towards Gloucester or towards Bristol.

There is a rail user group for the station, Coaley Junction Action Committee (CoJAC), which, following the opening of the new station, continues as a group to press for improvements in the service.

Services

Great Western Railway's local services operate all services at this station. A new timetable was brought out on 10 December 2006 which saw the introduction of a mostly hourly "clockface" service, and a considerable increase in the number of trains calling, with northbound services (on Mondays to Fridays) increased from 11 to 15 and southbound services increased from 13 to 16. Northwards, services are to Gloucester with most services continuing on to Cheltenham Spa, Ashchurch for Tewkesbury and Worcester Foregate Street. One service a day also extends to Great Malvern. Southbound, services are to Bristol Temple Meads and onwards to Bath and Westbury, with some services carrying on to Weymouth.

An hourly service runs on Sundays between Bristol and Gloucester, with every other northbound service continuing on to Worcester Foregate Street.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Yate		Great Western Railway Great Malvern/Gloucester - Bristol/Westbury/South Coast		Gloucester
	Historical railways
Stopping at Coaley Junction railway station
Berkeley Road Line open, station closed		Bristol and Gloucester Railway Midland Railway		Frocester Line open, station closed
		Sharpness Branch Line Midland Railway		Terminus
	Disused railways
Cam Line and station closed		Dursley and Midland Junction Railway Midland Railway		Terminus

Bibliography

• Quick, Michael (2023). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: A Chronology (PDF) (5th ed.). London: Railway and Canal Historical Society.

External links

• Train times and station information for Cam and Dursley railway station from National Rail
• CoJAC, the rail user group for Cam and Dursley station