Date: 19/05/2014

MODERN-DAY Cotswold Line trains speed past the site of Adlestrop station but a stop there one summer afternoon in 1914 inspired the poet Edward Thomas to write some of his most famous verses. One hundred years later, on Tuesday, June 24, that moment will be commemorated by the reading of Thomas's poem Adlestrop on a special train that will stop near the site of the station, which closed in 1964.

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MODERN-DAY Cotswold Line trains speed past the site of Adlestrop station but a stop there one summer afternoon in 1914 inspired the poet Edward

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There was not much to see as far as the former Adlestrop station was concerned when it was visited on 4 March 2014. The degraded remains of the platforms were just visible and the station house still stood as a private residence through the trees on the left. [Ref query 3485]. Photographed from the bridge carrying the A436 over the railway.
Location: Adlestrop
Company: Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
04/03/2014 John McIntyre

The station nameboard and a bench (with GWR scrollwork) from Adlestrop station in use in the village bus shelter on 4 March 2014, some distance from the railway. The station closed in 1966 but is remembered in a poem by Edward Thomas when a train he was on stopped at the station in June 1914. Edward Thomas was killed in action at the Battle of Arras in 1917.
Location: Adlestrop
Company: Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
04/03/2014 John McIntyre