Monmouth Troy archive photos
Photographs from 1950 to 1960


Busy scene, 16th June, 1952. (Pic: N Mitchell)

Three passenger trains are stacked up at Monmouth Troy station in this lunchtime view.

Ex-GWR railcar NoW21W heads up the scene with the 11:50am for Chepstow. Behind that is single coach 12:00 service to Pontypool hauled by Pannier tank No 6400, with 0-4-2T No 1455 at the back with the 12:50 service to Ross on Wye.


Down platform arrival, 11th April, 1955. (Pic: RM Casserley)

Arriving on the down platform with the 11am from Ross on Wye is a Collett '14xx' class 0-4-2T engine number 1445.



A bustling goods yard can be seen in this June 1956 view of Monmouth Troy.
(Pic: Arthur Day)




1950s view of the station frontage. Compare with this 1985 view.
(Pic: Arthur Day)


Main station buildings on the eastbound platform at Monmouth Troy, June 1956. (Pic: E Wilmhurst)

To the far left can just be seen a sign for the Parcels Office and Cloakroom, with the Booking Office near the centre of the picture. An array of wheelbarrows, trolleys and bicycles can be seen on the platform.


Heading up the one-carriage, 6.20pm passenger service to Chepstow, the driver fills up the water tanks of Pannier tank No 6431 at Monmouth Troy, 9th September 1958.
(Pic: R O Tuck)




Crossing the Wye, 3rd January, 1959.(Pic: Ian Allan Library)

Ex-GWR 0-4-2T No 1455 propels an auto train towards Monmouth Troy across. In the distance you can see smoke coming from the waiting Newport-Monmouth train


Last day of passenger train services, 3rd January, 1959. (Pic: R O Tuck)

The train waits at Monmouth Troy on the last day of ordinary passenger train services.

Much of the station was demolished, although the main building survived in situ until the late 1980s when it was dismantled, brick by brick, and rebuilt at Winchcombe station on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway




Farewell to the Wye Valley, Monmouth Troy, 4th January, 1959.(Pic: P B Whitehouse)

Headed by an immaculate GWR 0-6-0 Pannier Tank, the last train from Monmouth - Ross prepares to leave Monmouth.


An 0-6-0 Pannier tank performs shunting duties around Monmouth Troy in September 1959. Passenger services from the station ceased in January that year.
(Pic: E Wilmhurst)


View after closure (Pic: C J Gammell)

Monmouth after the trains. This view was taken on July 3rd, 1960, 18 months after closure.