This short-lived branch line was not opened as a through route until 1897. By this time, it had been taken over by the GWR. It was closed to passengers in 1952 and completely in 1964. The track bed was then sold off to the original private land owners. Though there are a few recognisable sections, where the railway’s heritage is visible, much of the course of the railway has been returned to farming land, as in the valley bottom below Docklow, as shown in the pictures. For such a lightly used railway, one wonders why it was thought necessary to build a bridge with lengthy approach ramps, requiring considerable earthworks on either side, when a flat crossing would surely have sufficed.
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