Bullo Pill Railway | |
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Overview | |
Status | Closed |
Locale | Gloucestershire |
Service | |
Type | Heavy rail |
Operator(s) | Bullo Pill Railway, Great Western Railway, British Railways |
History | |
Opened | 1810 |
Closed | 1967 |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) |
Old gauge | 4 ft (1,219 mm) 7 ft 1⁄4 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.