page_title: Adlestrop
section_title: Railway and former station
hierarchical_section_title: Adlestrop / Railway and former station
caption_attribution_description: English: Adlestrop station sign in the bus shelter The sign is one of the old station signs. It was moved here after the station closed. The plaque on the bench contains the famous poem by Edward Thomas about Adlestrop. First line: "Yes, I remember Adlestrop. The train stopped there." Here is a link to the full poem. http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Thomas%20E/adlestrop.htm The former railway station is here: 451139 This is a photo of listed building number 1443893.
context_page_description: Adlestrop is a village and civil parish in the valley of the River Evenlode in the Cotswolds about 3 miles east of Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire, England. The parish is on the county boundary with Oxfordshire. The River Evenlode forms the southwest boundary of the parish. The village is on a stream that flows southwest to join the river.
  The A436 road, which links the A44 road in Oxfordshire with Stow-on-the-Wold, passes through the parish just south of the village. The Cotswold Line railway passes along the Evenlode valley southwest of the village and until 1966 had a station here.
  Since 1935 the parish of Adlestrop has included the village of Daylesford. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 120.
context_section_description: In 1853 the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway was built along the Evenlode valley. A station was opened about ¹⁄₂ mile (800 m) southwest of Adlestrop village where the main road (now the A436) crosses the river. The station was called "Addlestrop" and Stow Road (note the double "D") until 1862, when it was shortened to "Addlestrop". The Great Western Railway took over the line in 1863 and changed the spelling to "Adlestrop" with a single "D" in 1883.
  British Railways closed the station in 1966 but the railway remains open. The nearest station is now at Kingham, about 3 miles (5 km) south of the Adlestrop.
  Adlestrop was immortalised by Edward Thomas's poem "Adlestrop", which was first published in 1917. The poem describes an uneventful journey that Thomas took on 24 June 1914 on the Oxford to Worcester express. The train made a scheduled stop at Adlestrop railway station, which the poet thought was unscheduled. He did not alight from the train, but describes a moment of calm pause in which "a blackbird sang close by, and... all the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire".
  One of the station signs and one of the benches that used to be on the station platform are now in the village bus shelter. A plaque on the bench quotes Thomas’s poem. These are all that remain of the former station.
  Adlestrop
  Yes. I remember Adlestrop
  
  The name, because one afternoon
  
  Of heat, the express-train drew up there
  
  Unwontedly. It was late June.
  
  The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
  
  No one left and no one came
  
  On the bare platform. What I saw
  
  Was Adlestrop—only the name
  
  And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
  
  And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
  
  No whit less still and lonely fair
  
  Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
  
  And for that minute a blackbird sang
  
  Close by, and round him, mistier,
  
  Farther and farther, all the birds
  
  Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
caption: Adlestrop bus shelter with the station sign
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