Bullo Pill Railway

Bullo Pill Railway
Overview
StatusClosed
LocaleGloucestershire
Service
TypeHeavy rail
Operator(s)Bullo Pill Railway,
Great Western Railway,
British Railways
History
Opened1810
Closed1967
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm)
Old gauge4 ft (1,219 mm)
7 ft 14 in (2,140 mm)

The Bullo Pill Railway was an early British railway, completed in 1810 to carry coal mined in the Forest of Dean Coalfield to a port on the River Severn near Newnham, Gloucestershire. It was later converted to a broad gauge steam line by the Great Western Railway, and was closed in the 1960s.