Abandoned Cheltenham to Honeybourne Railway Pt 2 of 2

In the second part of this Abandoned Cheltenham to Honeybourne project, we concentrate on the section from Broadway in the Cotswolds to Honeybourne. The film goes some way to explaining why the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Heritage Railway goes no further at present. Whilst the track bed offers little in the way of restoration challenges, the bridges, 7 in total, require a lot of work and finance to keep them safe and useable. whether we shall ever see steam trains travel this route in the future remains a cause for speculation. This line that started in Cheltenham actually carried on to Stratford on Avon, the council there have suggested some help in restoring the line as a joint venture in the future, and provides probably the only hope of access to sufficient capital to make it possible. Meanwhile Honeybourne would be useful as a link to a mainline but would still need a vast amount spent. Even as just a cycle path the bridges would still need a lot of work as you can see.

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