Whitebrook Halt
General information
LocationWhitebrook, Monmouthshire
Wales
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
February 1927Opened
January 1959Closed

Whitebrook Halt was a request stop on the former Wye Valley Railway. It was opened in 1927 to serve the village of Whitebrook. It was closed in 1959 when passenger services were withdrawn from the Wye Valley Railway.[1] The station came too late to make full use out of the village's industry. Whitebrook had once been home to three paper mills. However, paper making ceased in Whitebrook in the early 1880s, only four years after the line opened in 1876. The halt was not built until long after the closure of the paper mills.[2]

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
St Briavels   Wye Valley Railway
British Railways		   Penallt Halt

51°45′28″N 2°40′13″W / 51.7577°N 2.6702°W / 51.7577; -2.6702

References

  1. ↑ Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 454. OCLC 931112387.
  2. ↑ B. M. Handley and R. Dingwall, The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch, 1982, ISBN 0-85361-530-6


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