Currently, when travelling from Stroud to Bristol, you have to travel via Gloucester, Cheltenham or Swindon - which means it's anything but cheap!
Tens of thousands of cars travel in to Bristol every day, causing massive air pollution problems. A direct train from Stroud to Bristol would mean less traffic on the roads in Bristol and at Cam & Dursley station too!
A direct line to Bristol would mean travel times reducing by up to three times! Less travel means less cost, time and emissions.
– Travel direct to Bristol from Stonehouse with the new Stroudwater Station.
– Mainline trains to Scotland and Cornwall stopped just five miles from Stroud.
– A fast, climate-friendly train link for people working in Bristol.
– Journeys to the South West without the unnecessary and carbon-intensive journey to Cheltenham, Gloucester or Swindon. Providing an alternative to private car use, which inevitably leads to sitting static in traffic on the M5, M4 or M32.
– A boost to canal-based tourism for Stonehouse and Stroud, particularly if funding is secured for “the missing mile".
– Gloucestershire has much lower rates of train travel (9 journeys per household) than other counties (approximately 15 journeys per household).
– Halcrow consultants found that the capital cost of re-opening Bristolwater train station was £2m in 2001, based on 160,000 journeys a year.
– With it’s 70,000 population, Stroud District is the largest urban area with no direct rail link to it’s regional capital in the country.
Data provided by Robert Crockford.
"I live near Stroud and I work in Bristol - that means that I cycle from my house near Leonard Stanley, all the way over to Cam & Dursley train station which is about 5 miles each way and then get a slow commuter train in to Bristol and then cycle the other way. Re-opening Stroudwater station would mean I could pop down there, 5 minutes on my bike or there's a bus stop outside my house that goes down to Stonehouse, or to be honest I could even walk it in about half an hour! It would completely transform my commute."
"It makes absolute sense for Stroudwater station to be reopened. If we think logically, at this moment in time, people wanting to travel to the South West need to go either Swindon or Gloucester to catch a train if they want to go through Stonehouse. It is absolutely ridiculous. The station is there. There is a lot of public support for it now. There are so many possibilities. Yes, we have got a lot of housing in Stonehouse, we can’t encourage any more. We have got Eastington brewing around us. Stonehouse is well placed to have that station to go South, East, North and West. That is why we are pushing hard for it. Times are changing, Stonehouse is changing and I think the need for it is greater now than it ever was.”
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