Gloucester Train Station - GL1 1DF
Central Hotel Gloucester 5 Minutes Walk, New County Hotel 10 Minutes Walk
Information
The ticket office just inside the station entrance is open for most the day, seven days a week. Snacks and drinks are served in the café on platform 2. Cheltenham is a 5 min Journey away & London is accessable from here.
Being right next to Gloucester Bus Station, the New Gloucester Transport Hub, both are ideally located right next to Central Hotel, & give great access to just almost anywhere you would wisk to travel in the UK.
History
Gloucester railway station is a railway station serving the city of Gloucester in England. The station was originally built as the terminus of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway in 1840, but the arrival of the (broad gauge) Bristol and Gloucester Railway and Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway in 1844, and then conversion to a through station for the South Wales Railway in 1851 resulted in a very complex layout.
Gloucester has the second longest railway platform in Great Britaina t 1,977 feet 4 inches (602.69 m), just behind Colchester (2034 ft, 620 m). This platform was lengthened as part of the 1977 rebuilding work by British Rail and was intended to handle two Inter-City 125 trains at the same time. These trains were just coming into service on the Western Region London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa services at this time and all services were handled by the same platform.
