There had been two stations at Lydney, on the Welsh side of the Severn Bidge crossing of the River Severn, one being Lydney Junction and the other Lydney Town and I believe this view is of the station at Lydney Junction.
Following the collision with the bridge by the two fuel laden barges on the night of the 25th October of 1960 and the resulting explosion with brought down two spans of the bridge, passenger services between the two stations at Lydney were immediately withdrawn although through passenger services on the main line between South Wales and Gloucester through Lydney Junction were maintained.
Although the Severn Bridge had been a useful diversionary route between Bristol and South Wales when maintenance work was underway in the Severn Tunnel, especially on Sundays, regular freight workings across the Severn Bridge had diminished during the 1960's and the main function of the bridge in its last years was to carry local passenger services over the Severn thereby connecting Lydney to Sharpness on the Gloucestershire bank together with intermediate stations to Gloucester.
These services could not justify repair and reopening of the bridge, however, and following temporary strengthening work demolition of the bridge and its surrounds began in the summer of 1967, lasting until January of 1970.