South Cerney
Site of the station in 1984
General information
Location	South Cerney,Cotswold England
Coordinates	51°40′23″N1°55′08″W / 51.6731°N 1.9190°W /51.6731; -1.9190
Grid reference	SU056971
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland and South Western Junction Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
18 December 1883 (1883-12-18)	Opened asCerney and Ashton Keynes
1 July 1924	RenamedSouth Cerney
11 September 1961 (1961-09-11)	Station closed for passengers
July 1963	closed for goods
Location

South Cerney railway station was on theMidland and South Western Junction Railway inGloucestershire. The station opened on 18 December 1883 on theSwindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway line fromSwindon Town to the temporary terminus atCirencester Watermoor. The S&CER line amalgamated in 1884 with theSwindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway to form the M&SWJR, and through services beyond Cirencester to the junction atAndoversford with theGreat Western Railway'sCheltenham Lansdown toBanbury line, which had opened in 1881, started in 1891.

Cerney and Ashton Keynes station was just outside the village ofSouth Cerney and about 2.5 miles north east ofAshton Keynes. In 1905, the Great Western Railway'sMinety station on theSwindon toKemble line was renamed "Minety and Ashton Keynes": it was about the same distance south west of Ashton Keynes.

However, the two stations were not in nominal competition for long. Cerney and Ashton Keynes were renamed as simply "Cerney" after 1910 and then, after the GWR had absorbed the M&SWJR at theGrouping in 1923, as "South Cerney".

Passenger traffic at the station was never high, but there was much goods activity associated with the local gravel pits. As a whole, traffic on the M&SWJR fell steeply after theSecond World War and the line closed to passengers in 1961,^[1] with goods facilities at South Cerney being withdrawn in July 1963. The only traces of the station remaining are the line of the track through the railway arches and part of the Signal Box in the garden of Ashmoon House. Part of the line remains in use as a cycle path.

• Gloucestershire Railway Stations, Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 2003,ISBN 1-904349-24-2

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