Hereford Model Railway

This model of Hereford Barr’s Court railway station on the former GWR / LNWR ‘North & West Route’ from South Wales to Manchester has been under development since 2020, and depicts this busy centrepoint of railway ‘crossroads’ as it would have appeared between the 1900s and 1960s. As well as Hereford itself, cameo displays are also under construction of Dinedor Tunnel and Holme Lacy station on the Hereford, Ross & Gloucester route. All 3 prototype sites are within 3 miles of the model’s home!

These pages bring together materials I have explored in the course of researching the model, and i hope may prove useful and interesting to others. I will be continually expanding this series of blog posts as information and opportunity arises (with knowledgeable contributions or questions much welcome).

• OS Maps
• History Timeline(s)
• Trackplans and signalling diagrams
• Locomotives and motive power
• Rolling stock
• Timetables and operational diagrams

Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway

Useful References

• Wikipedia ‘Hereford Ross & Gloucester Railway’
• ’Herefordshire through Time – (HRGR Railway)’ – 2003 article by Miranda Greene, Historic Environment Record (+ ‘Railways of Hereford’ overview)
• ’Hereford Historian’ Feature
• ’Ross on Wye Vista’ – The Railway, Beginning to Closure (by Ross Civic Society)
• Museum without Wales: the Railway in Ross
• Herefordshire History – Proposed route of the Hereford Ross & Gloucester Railway, 1850

Books

• Track Layout Diagrams of the G.W.R and BR W.R. Section 63 Hereford ; Section 36 Ross, Monmouth and Chepstow – R. A. Cooke
• The Ross and Monmouth Railway Act, 1871 – printed in London by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode – Museum of Wales copy
• ‘Wye Valley Railway & Coleford Branch’ – BM Handley/R Dingwall – Oakwood Press, 1998 / 2007

Trackplans are mostly detailed in the excellent ‘Survey of Great Western Railway Stations’ series

• Hereford Barr’s Court – ‘Survey of Great Western Railway Stations, Volume 1’
• Rotherwas Junction and Station
• Rotherwas MOD Factory
• Dinedor Tunnel
• Holme Lacy – ‘Survey of Great Western Railway Stations, Volume 1’
• Ballingham
• Fawley – ‘Survey of Great Western Railway Stations, Volume 1’
• Backney Halt
• Ross-on-Wye – Ordnance Survey 1908, 1922, 1947, 1960
• Weston under Penyard
• Mitcheldean Road – ‘Survey of Great Western Railway Stations, Volume 1’
• Hopesbrook, temporary terminus 1852-53
• Longhope – ‘Survey of Great Western Railway Stations, Volume 1’
• Blaisdon Halt
• Grange Court Junction – ‘Survey of Great Western Railway Stations, Volume 1’
• Oakle Street
• Cloucester Central