Though Ross-on-Wye’s railway has been gone for almost sixty years, there are still reminders of it scattered throughout the town and the surrounding countryside. From old outbuildings to disused bridges, even today there is plenty to see of Ross’s lost railway.

Once the railway was completed in 1855, people were eager to take advantage of the new transport link. It would not all be smooth sailing though, as a decade later, services were halted as major alterations were carried out. Would these changes help, or hinder the railway?

In the early nineteenth century, a proposal was put forward to build a railway from Gloucester to Hereford via Ross-on-Wye. But with numerous false starts and setbacks plaguing the project, would its supporters ever be able to get it past the drawing board?