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Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Description The award-winning Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway (GWR) is a volunteer run organisation that has reopened the closed railway line between Toddington, Gloucestershire and Cheltenham Racecourse. It has future plans to extend to Broadway, Warwickshire. The line was originally part of the Great Western Railway's Cheltenham to Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham line, which was built in 1900-06, and runs through the local Cotswold towns of Winchcombe and Bishop's Cleeve. The line was closed after a train derailment in 1976. The preservation group rehabilitated the line, starting steam train operations in 1984. This culminated with the reopening of the line to Cheltenham Racecourse in 2003, by HRH The Princess Royal. The railway operates a wide variety of both steam and heritage diesel locomotives as well as heritage multiple units. These have included the world famous engine 4472 "Flying Scotsman" and 3440 "City of Truro", which was reputedly the first engine to reach 100 mph in 1904. Stations - Toddington
- Winchcombe
- Gotherington (Halt)
- Cheltenham Racecourse
Locomotives Locomotives marked with an asterisk (*) are not permanent residents on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Future plans The railway currently has two major projects ongoing. - Implementation of signalling on the Winchcombe-Cheltenham section of the line, to allow operation of multiple trains. This includes construction of signal boxes at Cheltenham Racecourse and Gotherington.
- Extension of track northwards from Toddington towards Broadway, with the construction of a new station at Broadway.
In the long-term future, plans could include a southern extension to link up to the national rail network at Cheltenham Spa mainline station, and extensions further north towards Honeybourne and possibly eventually Stratford-upon-Avon. North Gloucestershire Narrow Gauge Railway Toddington station is also home to the North Gloucestershire Narrow Gauge Railway. External link
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