Adlestrop Railway Station - 'Adlestrop' Poem

'Adlestrop' Poem

Despite the station's demise, it is more well-known today than many small stations still open as a result of the short poem Adlestrop by Edward Thomas, written in 1914, which recounts the moment in June that year when the train on which the poet was a passenger stopped at Adlestrop. Thomas's field note books show that the stop was made at 12.45 which corresponds to a scheduled down stopping service, not an unscheduled stop by an express as described in the poem. Other elements in the poem are based on stops by the same train at Campden and Colwall. A bench bearing a plaque with the poem engraved on it was transferred to a bus shelter in the village.