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When did the railway come to Stroud? In 1824, a group of Stroud businessmen unhappy with the tolls charged on the Stroudwater Canal, put forward a scheme to build a horse-drawn tramway to compete with the canal. Parliament rejected the scheme in 1825 - the same year that the world's first steam railway was opened between Stockton and Darlington in the North of England. |
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The new technology developed remarkably quickly. When Samuel Sevill of Burleigh House, Minchinhampton, gave evidence to a Parliamentary Enquiry about the cloth trade in 1839, he was quick to point to the lack of a railway, putting Stroud manufacturers at a disadvantage compared with their rivals in Yorkshire. |
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Here are a few useful links: https://www.thetrainline.com/ (Trainline booking service)
From January 2016, this website is managed by Stroud Local |
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