Vowchurch railway station was a

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on the

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line between

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and

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. It served the village of

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, from 1881. The station closed and re-opened three times before the line's closure to passenger services in 1941. The station comprised a single platform adjacent to the road and

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. To the west there was a goods yard which was particularly used for shipping timber. Construction materials for

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were brought through the yard during World War II.''The rise and fall of the Golden Valley Railway'' at Ewyas Lacy Study Group website
/ref> Goods services continued on the line until 1949.

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