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Chepstow railway station is a part of the British railway system owned by Network Rail and is operated by Transport for Wales.[1]

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  1. 42 relations: Birmingham, British Rail, Bus stop, Caldicot railway station, Canopy (architecture), Cardiff, Chepstow, Chepstow East railway station, Chepstow Racecourse, Chepstow Railway Bridge, CrossCountry, Gloucester, Gloucester–Newport line, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Italianate architecture, List of cities with defensive walls, Listed building, London, Lydney railway station, Modern Railways, Monmouth Troy railway station, Monmouthshire, Monmouthshire County Council, Network Rail, Newport railway station, Newport, Wales, Office of Rail and Road, Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow, Ordnance Survey National Grid, Penguin Books, Port, Portskewett railway station, Rail transport in Great Britain, Senedd, South Wales Railway, Tesco, The Daily Telegraph, Train station, Transport for Wales Rail, United Kingdom railway station categories, Wye Valley, Wye Valley Railway.

  2. Chepstow
  3. Grade II listed railway stations in Wales
  4. Railway stations in Monmouthshire

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997.

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Bus stop

A bus stop is a place where buses stop for passengers to get on and off the bus.

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Caldicot railway station

Caldicot railway station is a part of the British railway system owned by Network Rail and is operated by Transport for Wales. Chepstow railway station and Caldicot railway station are railway stations in Monmouthshire, railway stations served by CrossCountry and railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail.

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Canopy (architecture)

A canopy is an overhead roof or else a structure over which a fabric or metal covering is attached, able to provide shade or shelter from weather conditions such as sun, hail, snow and rain.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales.

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Chepstow

Chepstow (Cas-gwent) is a town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, adjoining the border with Gloucestershire, England.

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Chepstow East railway station

Chepstow East railway station was a temporary station on the South Wales Railway (now the Gloucester to Newport Line). Chepstow railway station and Chepstow East railway station are Chepstow.

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Chepstow Racecourse

Chepstow Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing course located just north of the town of Chepstow in Monmouthshire, Wales, near the southern end of the Wye Valley and close to the border with England. Chepstow railway station and Chepstow Racecourse are Chepstow.

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Chepstow Railway Bridge

Chepstow Railway Bridge was built to the instructions of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1852. Chepstow railway station and Chepstow Railway Bridge are Chepstow.

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CrossCountry

CrossCountry (legal name XC Trains Limited) is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains, operating the current CrossCountry franchise.

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Gloucester

Gloucester is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England.

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Gloucester–Newport line

The Gloucester–Newport line is a railway line that runs along the west bank of the River Severn in the United Kingdom between Gloucester and Newport.

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".

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Italianate architecture

The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

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List of cities with defensive walls

The following cities have, or historically had, defensive walls.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lydney railway station

Lydney railway station is a railway station serving the town of Lydney in Gloucestershire, England. Chepstow railway station and Lydney railway station are DfT Category F1 stations, railway stations served by CrossCountry and railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail.

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Modern Railways

Modern Railways is a monthly British magazine covering the rail transport industry, which was published by Ian Allan until March 2012 and Key Publishing since then.

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Monmouth Troy railway station

Monmouth Troy was one of the two former railway stations at Monmouth.

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Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south east of Wales.

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Monmouthshire County Council

Monmouthshire County Council (or simply Monmouthshire Council) (Cyngor Sir Fynwy) is the governing body for the Monmouthshire principal area – one of the unitary authorities of Wales.

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Network Rail

Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain.

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Newport railway station

Newport (Gorsaf Rheilffordd Casnewydd) is the second-busiest railway station in Wales (after Cardiff Central). Chepstow railway station and Newport railway station are railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850, railway stations served by CrossCountry and railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail.

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Newport, Wales

Newport (Casnewydd) is a city and county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, northeast of Cardiff.

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Office of Rail and Road

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the economic and safety regulation of Britain's railways, and the economic monitoring of National Highways.

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Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow

The Old Wye Bridge or Town Bridge at Chepstow, also known historically as Chepstow Bridge, crosses the River Wye between Monmouthshire in Wales and Gloucestershire in England, close to Chepstow Castle. Chepstow railway station and Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow are Chepstow.

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Ordnance Survey National Grid

The Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system (OSGB), also known as British National Grid (BNG), is a system of geographic grid references, distinct from latitude and longitude, whereby any location in Great Britain can be described in terms of its distance from the origin (0, 0), which lies to the west of the Isles of Scilly.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Port

A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers.

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Portskewett railway station

Portskewett railway station is a former station serving Portskewett, Wales, four miles south west of Chepstow and one mile east of Caldicot. Chepstow railway station and Portskewett railway station are railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850.

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Rail transport in Great Britain

The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest railway system in the world.

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Senedd

The Senedd, officially known as the Welsh Parliament in English and Senedd Cymru in Welsh, is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Wales.

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South Wales Railway

The South Wales Railway (Rheilffordd De Cymru) was a main line railway which opened in stages from 1850, connecting the Great Western Railway from Gloucester to South Wales.

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Tesco

Tesco plc is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, England.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Train station

A train station, railroad station, or railroad depot (mainly North American terminology) and railway station (mainly UK and other Anglophone countries) is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight, or both.

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Transport for Wales Rail

Transport for Wales Rail Limited, branded as Transport for Wales and TfW Rail (and), is a Welsh publicly owned train operating company, a subsidiary of Transport for Wales (TfW), a Welsh Government-owned company.

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United Kingdom railway station categories

The 2,579 railway stations on the National Rail network in Great Britain are classified into six categories (two of which are each divided into two subcategories) by the Department for Transport.

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Wye Valley

The Wye Valley National Landscape (formerly Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty; Dyffryn Gwy) is an internationally important protected landscape straddling the border between England and Wales.

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Wye Valley Railway

The Wye Valley Railway was a standard gauge railway that ran for nearly along the Lower Wye Valley between the towns of Chepstow and Monmouth, crossing several times between Wales and England.

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See also

Chepstow

Grade II listed railway stations in Wales

Railway stations in Monmouthshire

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chepstow_railway_station

Also known as Chepstow station.