Saturday 23rd to Sunday 26th May 2009: Toddington - Winchcombe - Cheltenham

The Festival has become a firm fixture in the calendar of important events in Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds.

2009 marks 25 years since the present-day GWR's first train tentatively set out from Toddington station on a journey of about 700 yards to Didbrook. And how the railway has grown over the years!  It now runs through 10 miles of the most glorious English countryside with the magnificent Cotswold hills rising on one side and the Vale of Evesham on the other, with views of the Malverns and, on a clear day, the distant Black Mountains of Wales.

This year's Cotswold Festival of Steam is a special celebration of those 25 years and Cadbury No. 1, the tiny locomotive that started it all, is here: albeit as a static exhibit. But the GWR has conjured up a magical display of steam power which is, arguably, the most colourful event staged yet by the GWR.

Topping the bill is no. 5972 Olton Hall, better known as the locomotive that stars as 'Hogwarts Castle' hauling the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter movies. Another colourful visitor is also the oldest - the 1875-built London Brighton & South Coast Railway 'Terrier' tank locomotive, Martello.  So red, green, black or brown - there's a kaleidoscope of engines to enjoy.

To find out all you need to know about the Festival, either scroll down or click on the following links to take you straight to what you want to see.

Stay Safe!

A gentle note about safety.  The platforms and trains are likely to be crowded at times.

• Please take care at the platform edge
• Please respect instructions of volunteer station staff and remain in designated areas
• Never walk near the track unless you have a lineside pass and are wearing a high-visibility orange jacket - please see separate safety advice for linesiders
• Take care! Steam locomotives are hot!
• If station staff advise you that the train is full (particularly the Autotrailer which has strictly limited accommodation) please respect their request not to travel on that train
• Never sit on the platform edge with your feet over the side
• Never attempt to join or leave a moving train
• Please keep an eye on children - they can easily get lost when there are a lot of people about!  If your youngster is lost, contact station staff who will make an announcement
• If you are hurt in any way or feel unwell, please contact station staff who can call appropriate assistance.  The GWR's fire service and paramedic staff are a first responder team. 

Welcome to the GWR - the Honeybourne Line from all volunteers. Please enjoy your visit.

What's happening at the Festival: the headlines
How to find the GWR
Car parking
Timetable information: read in conjunction with the working timetable
Star performers: the Festival Locomotives
Events at Toddington
Events at Winchcombe
Events at Cheltenham Race Course
Brake van rides
Fares
Lineside passes
Accommodation

The headlines: 25th Anniversary Cotswold Festival of Steam

This is an action-packed event that will appeal to the whole family. What can you expect to see and enjoy?

Star of the show is locomotive 5972 Olton Hall, which is better known as Hogwarts Castle, seen hauling the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter movies.  The engine is finished in its well-known dark red livery and although it will be working a variety of trains over the four day festival, it will be seen from time to time with the GWR's matching set of maroon coaches.  This is the first time the engine has worked public trains on a heritage railway.

The 'old lady' of the Festival is definitely no. 662 Martello. Now an amazing 134 years old, the engine is normally seen at the Bressingham Steam Museum and Garden Centre near Diss in Norfolk. The engine will be giving brake van rides at Cheltenham Racecourse station throughout the festival - definitely a exciting and unusual experience!

City of Truro - an extraordinary survivor with an extraordinary history.  Way back in 1904, when it was just one year old, this engine is said to have exceeded 100mph: the first man-made machine ever to reach such a speed.  In fact, the directors of the Great Western Railway were so worried about public outcry at such recklessness that this remarkable feat was suppressed for many years.  But this world record ensured the survival of the engine which is owned by the National Railway Museum and is normally resident at Toddington

A naming ceremony: it's not often that an engine is named, but this happens at Toddington station at 3pm on Saturday 23rd May. A rather attractive tank locomotive, no. 15, will be named 'Earl David' by the Earl of Wemyss, after his late father, the 12th Earl. The Earl lives at Stanway Manor (famous for its water gardens and fountain) near Toddington and his father once owned the engine, which ran on his own railway in Fife, Scotland

The Coffee Pot returns! Local people of a certain age who remember the 'Honeybourne Line', as it was known, fondly remember the one or two-coach 'push-pull' or 'auto' trains that ran from Cheltenham St. James to Honeybourne Junction over the route of the present-day GWR.  Well, that service was withdrawn way back in 1960 but it lives again at the Festival. This is your chance to ride in an auto-coach: the engine driver sits in a compartment at the front of the coach in one direction, operating the engine through a system of rods and levers as it pushes the coach along.  Then for the return journey the driver drives the engine leading the coach.  It's quite a unique experience especially as you can see the track ahead through the front windows!  The GWR first re-ran the Coffee Pot in 2007 for the Centenary of the railway - and you can read about the service and some memories of those who used it here.

Lots and lots of trains! Apart from the 'Coffee Pot' which runs between Winchcombe and Toddington, there is an intensive service of passenger trains between Toddington and Cheltenham.  There is also a freight, which is expected to be a fully-loaded ballast train. The ballast is destined for the Broadway extension.

A little bit of history - in a marquee at Toddington, find out about the GWR's 25 years of operation. And there is lots more to enjoy including the North Gloucestershire Narrow Gauge Railway.

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How to find the GWR

The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway - or 'Honeybourne Line' - is easy to reach. Cheltenham Racecourse station is within the grounds of the racecourse at Prestbury Park.  There are AA signs to the GWR, but follow the signs for Racecourse.  Access is off the roundabout on the A435 Evesham Road, unclassified Swindon Lane and B4075 New Barn Lane.

Toddington station is 10 miles from Junction 9 of the M5; follow the signs for Evesham (A46) and at the roundabout, B4077 Stow-on-the-Wold.  It is close to a roundabout at the junction of the B4077 Stow road and B4632 Broadway road. Follow the AA signs.

There are additional directions and details of how to find the GWR here and by public transport here.

Car parking

There is plenty of car parking at Toddington - use the large overflow car park next to Toddington station, follow the signs. You may well be asked for a £2 donation in the charity bucket (all proceeds to local charities).

At Cheltenham Racecourse there is also plenty of free parking. Please park in the GWR's designated parking area within the racecourse grounds (take care not to get mixed up with the Wychwood Music Festival traffic on Saturday and Sunday!).  Please do not attempt to park on the A435 Evesham Road by the station building - there is a dangerous blind dip in the road here.

Please do not attempt to park at Winchcombe station as there is very little space.

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Timetable

A special timetable operates over the four days of the festival and to provide variety, some locomotive 'diagrams' differ from day to day.  Click here to download a copy of the timetable and use this key to tell you which locomotives are working which trains.

For the photographers amongst you, we're indicating which direction each locomotive is pointing.

Locomotives are pointing as follows (south = smokebox towards Cheltenham, north = towards Toddington)

5972 - south
5526 - south, with auto trailer 178 attached to rear of locomotive (propelling north)
662 - south
15 - south
5619 - south
7903 - north
3440 - north
92203 - north

See below for details and 'potted histories' of the Festival locomotives.

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Festival Locomotives*

Avonside 0-4-0T Cadbury No. 1
Andrew Barclay 0-6-0ST WPR no. 15 Earl David
LB&SCR A1X class 0-6-0T no. 662 Martello
GWR City class 4-4-0 no. 3440 City of Truro
GWR 4575 class 2-6-2T no. 5526 with Autotrailer no. 178
GWR 5600 class 0-6-2T no. 5619
GWR Hall class 4-6-0 no. 5972 Olton Hall
BR (W) Modified Hall class 4-6-0 no. 7903 Foremarke Hall
BR 9F class 2-10-0 no. 92203 Black Prince

(*all subject to availability)

Avonside 0-4-0T Cadbury No. 1

In April 1984, this locomotive - then owned by the Dowty Railway Preservation Society - was the only engine capable of steaming on the GWR.  It hauled the very first train and it is a delight to see the engine back at Toddington, although it is in need of restoration, having been out of use for several years in the open at Birmingham Railway Museum.  The locomotive was built at the Bristol works of the Avonside Engine Company as works no. 1977 and delivered new to Cadbury's Bournville factory in 1925.  The engine shunted the works sidings until 1973 when it was bought for preservation. You can read the full story here.

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Hunslet 0-6-0T no. 15 Earl David

The GWR welcomes back to Toddington Hunslet-designed 'Austerity' 0-6-0T no. 15, built by Andrew Barclay as works no. 2183 of 1943.  Although the GWR is the engine's 'home', it has spent most of the past year since its restoration working on other heritage railways such as the East Lancashire Railway and the Nene Valley Railway.  The engine is owned by Andrew Goodman and its restoration was completed towards the end of 2007. No 15 has an interesting history in that it was delivered new to the War Department (later Ministry of Defence) and while in the custody of the MoD was overhauled at Swindon works. In 1964 it was sold to the Wemyss Private Railway (WPR) in Fife, Scotland, an extensive mineral railway system that served a number of collieries. It was withdrawn in 1971 while the railway system was being run down prior to closure.  There is an interesting local connection in that the WPR was owned by the family of the Earl of Wemyss, Lord Niedpath, of Stanway Manor, whose land abuts the GWR at Toddington.  On Saturday 23rd May at 3pm, the locomotive will be named Earl David, by the present, 13th, Earl of Wemyss in honour of his late father, the 12th Earl who once owned the locomotive. No. 15 is finished in the WPR's attractive two-tone umber livery and appeared for the first time in preservation at the GWR's 2007 Christmas Cracker. You can read a feature about the Austerity 0-6-0STs and no. 15 in particular by clicking here.

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A1X class 0-6-0T no. 662 Martello

Originally known as A class, these tiny locomotives were introduced in 1872 to handle commuter trains on the London suburban lines of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway. So successful were they, with their relatively large (4ft) diameter driving wheels giving a sprightly turn of speed, that 50 were built at the railway company's Brighton works.  Designer William Stroudley selected a member of the class to exhibit at the Paris Exhibition in 1878, where it won a gold medal for workmanship. The engines were extremely reliable and as larger engines took over, many were sold on to other railways. Amazingly, several of these remarkable little machines not only survived through grouping in 1925 to become owned by the Southern Railway, but into British Railway's ownership in 1948. After improvements over the years, including larger boilers, to become firstly class A1 and later class A1X, a number of them were retained to work trains over the branch line from Havant to Hayling Island, where weight restriction over the timber trestle bridge that gave access to the island precluded the use of engines of any greater weight.  In their final form, the A1X class weighs only 28 tons. Martello was originally numbered 62, later 662, by the LB&SCR; no 2662 by the Southern Railway and 32662 by British Railways. It was withdrawn from service in 1963, one of the oldest locomotives in British Railways service and is now owned by the Bressingham Museum Trust and Gardens at Diss in Norfolk.  During the Festival, the locomotive will be running brakevan rides early morning from Toddington to Cheltenham and back late evening, and during the day at Cheltenham Racecourse station.  10 members of the class survive.

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3440 City of Truro

This locomotive needs little introduction as by allegedly 'doing the ton' with an ocean mails train from Plymouth to Paddington as it descended Wellington Bank at Whiteball in Somerset during 1904, it became the fastest man-made machine on the planet and you can read a little of the story of that historic occasion with some historic pictures of City class locomotives in a review of the excellent DVD: '102.3' here.  The DVD (named after the speed that no. 3440 was recorded as achieving) is available in the Toddington station shop.  3440 is owned by the National Railway Museum and is normally based at Toddington.  It was designed by G J Churchward at Swindon works for express passenger work but as trains became heavier, larger locomotives were needed and the City class soon found themselves on secondary work.  By 1932 all of the class had been withdrawn and broken up, apart from City of Truro which found its way to the embryonic National Railway Museum, then operated by the London & North Eastern Railway at York.

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GWR small Prairie no. 5526

5526 is being loaned to the GWR by the South Devon Railway, in lieu of sister engine no. 5542. The locomotive is finished in British Railways standard black livery. Our visitor has just appeared at the highly successful Steel, Steam & Stars gala and the opportunity was taken to pay a visit to the GWR before returning to its Buckfastleigh home.  Meanwile, an intermediate overhaul of 5542 has been completed at Buckfastleigh and the engine is currently operating on the South Devon Railway, but should be back at Toddington in time for the Cotswold Festival of Steam at the end of the month.

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GWR Autotrailer no. 178

Autotrailers were an important feature of the Cheltenham St. James to Honeybourne services with the locomotive (usually a 14xx class 0-4-2T) propelling the coach northbound and hauling it back. This was particularly helpful at Cheltenham because the train had to reverse at Cheltenham Malvern Road to gain access to the Honeybourne line and vice -versa on the return to gain access to St James's station (which stood where the Waitrose supermarket is now). The service - which ended in 1960 - was known locally as the Coffee Pot. On this occasion, the coach will be worked throughout the Festival by 2-6-2T no. 5526.  No. 178 was one of a batch of 10 built at Swindon in 1930 and spent most of its life at Barmouth and Ruabon.  It was taken in to departmental stock at Kidderminster in 1961 and then to Wolverhapton from where it was purchased for a very painstaking restoration.

Please note!
The Autotrailer will make several return trips between Toddington and Winchcombe each day. Please note that the maximum capacity of the vehicle is 72 seated plus eight standing - total 80 people. GWR staff will politely but firmly ensure that this maximum capacity is not exceeded. Please respect this important historic coach and please do not eat or drink while on board - sticky Coke mixed with crunched-up crisps doesn't do the upholstery much good! It is possible to accommodate a couple of wheelchairs within the guard's vestibule at the locomotive end of the coach. Riding in this lovely coach is a special and evocative experience and many local people fondly remember the auto trains that ran between Cheltenham and Honeybourne as the 'Coffee Pot'. Enjoy!

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GWR 0-6-2T no. 5619

Built by the Great Western Railway, Swindon, in 1925 this is a member of the Powerful '5600' class 0-6-2 tank locomotive designed to handle coal traffic in South Wales, although were used on local passenger trains as well. This locomotive spent its entire working life in South Wales until withdrawn in 1964. Bought from Barry scrapyard by the Telford Steam Railway it was restored to working order in 1981. It has since been overhauled again, at The Flour Mill workshops in the Forest of Dean and returned to service this year. There's a full profile of the class, and 5619 in particular, which you can see by clicking here.  This very chunky and business-like looking locomotive is resident on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.

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GWR Hall class no. 5972 Olton Hall

This locomotive - one of 330 Hall and Modified Hall class locomotives built at Swindon - was projected into the limelight when it was painted red to star as Hogwarts Castle in the Harry Potter films. The engine is presented at The Festival in this guise and is bound to be a popular attraction. The first Harry Potter movie appeared in 2001 featuring the locomotive departing from platform 9¾ from Kings Cross, with the Hogwarts Express and it has appeared in every Harry Potter film since.  In fact, Olton Hall was built in 1937 and spent most of its working life in South Wales and Plymouth.  It was withdrawn from Cardiff East Dock in 1963 and moved to the infamous Barry Scrapyard, from where it was rescued for preservation. It is now owned by West Coast Trains and based at Carnforth. Although in its 'Hogwarts Castle' guise it has worked public trains on the main line, this is the first time it has appeared hauling public service trains on a heritage railway. The locomotive remains on the GWR after the Festival, working trains on 27th, 28th, 30th and 31st May.

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GWR Modified Hall class no. 7903 Foremarke Hall

Spot the difference (and one being red and the other being green isn't the answer!)! Once again there are Halls of both the original Collett design and Hawksworth's modified version at work at the same time on the GWR.  No. 7903 is the youngest of the class to survive, emerging from Swindon works in 1949 after the formation of British Railways - so it is 60 this year. The Modified Hall was a better performer than the original version, all down to improvements in superheating and draughting of the fire.  There are small visual differences and you can find out what they are by clicking here .  7903 has been a reliable performer on the GWR since it arrived five years ago following a 25-year restoration at the Swindon & Cricklade Railway.

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BR 9F class no. 92203 Black Prince

One of the most popular locomotives at the GWR, Black Prince is a standard class 9F 2-10-0, one of the last of 251 to be built for heavy freight traffic and could be found throughout the UK (92220 Evening Star was the last, that locomotive now in the care of the National Railway Museum). 92203 was first delivered to Bristol and worked passenger trains over the hilly Somerset & Dorset Railway, before moving north to Birkenhead, where it worked iron ore trains - just the sort of work it was designed for. But despite being intended for freight, 9Fs found themselves in charge of passenger trains on occasions and on more than one occasion proved themselves capable of speeds of up to 90mph.

The BR Modernisation Plan meant that the class had a lamentably short life, 92203 working for little more than eight years before being bought by artist and wildlife conservationist David Shepherd (who will be visiting the railway during the Festival). Following purchase, the engine was delivered under its own steam to the embryonic Longmoor Military Railway preservation centre (now closed) in 1968 and named Black Prince, moving to several centres before taking up residence at Toddington. 

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Events at Toddington: from 0 to 10 in 25 years

Hardly an acceleration claim to write home about for a car, but for a railway that started out with nothing - and is run entirely by volunteers - it is a remarkable achievement.  In a marquee at Toddington you can discover more about the railway's history and progress since Cadbury No. 1 set out in a cloud of steam and optimism with the first train, on a journey of just 700 yards.

On the unloading road in the car park you'll find Cadbury No. 1 itself: a tiny Avonside tank engine that spent its life shunting wagons around the chocolate factory sidings at Cadbury in Bournville. See Locomotives above for more information and a link to this lovable engine's life story.

Two other locomotives will share the unloading road for visitors to enjoy. Hidden from view for many years, the Churchill 8F Group's ex-Turkish State Railways LMS-designed 8F class 2-8-0 , which is approaching the end of a comprehensive overhaul at Toddington, can be examined. Similarly, you'll get a chance to see progress on the chassis of the Cotswold Steam Preservation Group's Great Wesern 2800 class locomotive no. 2807.  Apart from being one of the first locomotives of the 2-8-0 arrangement built in the UK - and true inspiration from Swindon's CME G J Churchward (you can read about the father of modern steam locomotive design here); it also happens to be the oldest GWR locomotive in private ownership as it was built in 1906. Compare this with the much more recent Stanier 2-8-0 which can be considered a direct descendent of Churchward's heavy freight masterpiece, since Sir William Stanier learned his craft at Swindon under the tutelage of Churchward.

Only the chassis of 2807 is on display as the boiler is at Llangollen being returned to steamable condition. The chassis will follow in due course and the locomotive reassembled: hopefully returning to steam in 2010 in time for next year's 175th anniversary of the Great Western Railway.

If you fancy visiting the footplate of a locomotive, there's a chance to do so between services. Some of the locomotives will spend time in the old Cattle Dock siding next to Platform 1 and visitors will be welcome to come and warm themselves next to the fire and chat to the footplate crew!

Refreshments will be available in the Flag & Whistle tea rooms as well as outside catering facilities. If it's hot, you'll no doubt be queuing for a '99' from Tartaglias beautifully restored 1949 Bedford ice cream float*.

Refreshments also available on most train services, except the auto train, provided by the GWR's volunteer On-Train Catering Team.  In the chocolate and cream restaurant car, a wide range of hot and cold snacks are available, including home-made cakes, in addition to a range of light snacks and hot and cold drinks. In all refreshment cars, sample the railway's locally-brewed Rail Ale and Track Cider.

Over the Festival, the North Gloucestershire Narrow Gauge Railway will be operating services from its station on the opposite side of the car park to the standard-gauge railway.

You can also visit Toddington Garden Centre - there is an entrance opposite the station building.

And don't miss the opportunity to visit the Railway Archiving Trust's museum building next to Platform 2. 

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Events at Winchcombe

The GWR's acclaimed Carriage & Wagon Department will be hosting visits within the former goods shed. Here the railway's rolling stock is restored and overhauled.  Demonstrations will be taking place and you can compare restored and unrestored 50-year-old Mk. 1 coaches.

Refreshments will be on offer in the main station building.

In the Travelling Post Office coach in the bay on platform 2 there is an impressive model railway display.

Winchcombe is a great place to while away an hour or so - the station (the main building of which once stood at Monmouth Troy) will be very busy with through trains, freights and local services. While if you've brought a picnic, enjoy the tables in the grassy picnic area next to platform 2 and watch the trains go by.

And don't miss the wonderful water colour paintings by Frederick Lea GRA who is displaying a variety of pictures of railway and non-railway subjects in the Post Office coach. You will be able to buy prints and cards, limited-edition prints and even commission an original! Frederick is the GWR's 'resident' artist. 

In the Santa coaches will be examples of David Andrews' Gauge '0' models and model kits and a number of model railways.

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Events at Cheltenham Racecourse

There will be plenty going on here!  Locomotive Martello will be offering brake van rides within the station limits in exchange for a donation. You can find out about Martello - which is over 140 years old - by looking at Locomotives here.  Between services, an engine will also be laying over at Cheltenham. 

The original Swindon-built booking hall - at the top of the ramp - is well worth a visit. It is a prefabricated design built as a 'flat-pack' at Swindon works in 1912 and it has been beautifully restored. Inside is a range of artifacts including the stone unveiled by HRH The Princess Royal when she re-opened the station in 2003.

Light refreshments will be available at the station, those at platform level being run by the owners of small Prairie no. 5542.

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Brake van rides

Here's a rare opportunity to ride in a brake van!  Brake van rides will be available on each day of the festival at Cheltenham Racecourse station, within station limits, using the 134-year-old A1X class locomotive from Bressingham, no. 662 Martello. The service will operate between trains calling at the station.  The guard will invite you (nicely) to make a voluntary donation.

If you would like to ride the whole length of the line in a brake van behind Martello, then you will need to be early at Toddington - or late at Cheltenham!  The loco and its two brake vans will depart Toddington at 08.30 - and will be in platform 2 at Toddington for just five minutes before departure. First come, first served: if there are too many to travel in safety please respect the Guard if there's not room for you to travel and he asks you politely to stay behind!

For the return journey, the loco and brake vans will depart Cheltenham Racecourse station at 18.30.

The journey will be non-stop in each direction.  Please make a voluntary donation of £5 for this truly unique journey and you should be in possession of a Gala train ticket also.  Regrettably, no children permitted under the age of 14 for health and safety reasons.

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Festival Fares

Fantastic value and so much going on!  Your tickets allow unlimited travel on the day of issue, so make sure you get there early! 

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Through the lens...lineside passes

If you are a photographer aged 18 or over you are welcome to take photographs from the lineside provided you hold either an annual or day lineside pass.  You must not enter GWR property without one.  You must also wear a clean high-visibility jacket (buy one in the station shop at Toddington!) and use agreed access points to reach GWR property.  You must not under any circumstances enter Greet tunnel - besides, it is haunted (yes, really!).  Please obey any instructions from GWR staff.  When a train approaches please acknowledge any whistle sounded from the locomotive. Day pass costs just £10.00 from Toddington booking office. More information - click here.

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Accommodation

If you want to stay near the railway, you will be spoiled for choice - there is plenty of variety from family bed -and breakfast, farm houses, self catering and hotels ranging from small family-run establishments to fine four- and five-star establishments. You can find out more by contacting the Tourist Information offices in Cheltenham (http://www.visitcheltenham.com/), which has a useful online free booking service (or telephone  01242 517110 ). You can also contact Tewkesbury tourist information office at  01... or Winchcombe tourist information office at  01242 602925 . Broadway tourist information also offers comprehensive online booking service with links to hundreds of places to stay, at http://www.cotswolds.info/hotels-lodgings-pubs-inns-cottages.shtml

But here is a small selection you could try:
Old Station House, Greet, Winchcombe GL54 5LD - this is the original station master's house right next to Winchcombe station and only a few feet from the line. Contact Jenny Collier on  0124... or old_station_house@hotmail.com

Irely Grounds, Broadway Road, Winchcombe GL54 5NY - set just outside Winchcombe on the road to Toddington, this is a country house with four self-catering cottages available for weekend or longer bookings. Only five minutes walk from Winchcombe station and next to the railway. Contact Mrs Galpin on  01242 602603  or visit http://www.stableyardcottages.com

Oaklands, 16 Gretton Road, Winchcombe GL54 5EG - a family-run guest house close to Winchcombe village centre and a 15-minute walk from Winchcombe station. Welcoming accommodation, suitable for disabled visitors and you can even bring your pet! Contact Mr & Mrs Anderson on  01242 602272  or visit http://www.oaklandsbedandbreakfast.activehotels.com

Please mention the GWR if you contact any of the above.
Please note that the GWR accepts no responsibility for the content or availability of external websites. The brief accommodation listing above is not an exhaustive list, and should not be taken as an endorsement by the GWR of any of the properties listed.

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