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Iron Acton
The site of Iron Acton railway station in 2004
General information
Location	Iron Acton, South Gloucestershire England
Coordinates	51°32′52″N 2°28′08″W / 51.5477°N 2.4690°W / 51.5477; -2.4690
Grid reference	ST675833
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
2 September 1872 (1872-09-02)	Station opened
19 June 1944 (1944-06-19)	Station closed

Thornbury Branch Line
Legend
Thornbury Grovesend Tunnel Tytherington Quarry Tytherington Tunnel Tytherington Iron Acton Frampton Cotterell freight line Yate Cross Country Route to Bristol │ to Birmingham

Iron Acton station opened on 2 September 1872, with the start of services on the Midland Railway branch from Yate to Thornbury. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.^[1]

It closed to passenger services on 19 June 1944.

The station served Iron Acton village and was sited to the south west of it. It consisted of a single platform face and a large wooden station building. A freight-only branch serving an iron mine in Frampton Cotterell connected at the station. This closed in 1872 and a truncated section of this route served as a coal depot until closure on 10 June 1963.

The station was demolished in the 1960s. The part-remains of the platform survive, as does a crossing-keeper's cottage to the south of the station site. In mid 2013, the line beyond Yate Middle Jn was placed 'Out of Use', due to the mothballing of the quarry at Tytherington.^[2] However the line has since reopened with the resumption of quarry traffic.

• Oakley, Mike. Gloucestershire Railway Stations. The Dovecote Press. ISBN 1-904349-24-2.
• "Bristol Railway Archive".