The Lower Lydbrook Viaduct was an iron railway viaduct with stone piers, it was on the Severn and Wye Railway and situated in Lower Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, England.
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The Severn and Wye Railway was closed to passengers in 1929 and to goods in 1951.
To the west of this station, the freight-only line of the Severn and Wye Mineral Railway crossed the GWR line on its north-south route taking coal and iron from the Forest of Dean to the docks at Lydney.
This became the Severn and Wye Railway and Canal in 1810, when a new Act of Parliament authorised the construction of a tramway and the canal to Lydney Harbour.
The Mineral Loop was opened in 1872 and a branch to Coleford from Parkend opened in 1875.
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Freight services on the line lasted much longer than passenger; the Lydbrook arm closed completely in 1956, (the line had been near dormant for several years before), the branch to Coleford and Whitecliff Quarry closed in 1967 and the section to Parkend finally closed in 1976.
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There were many branches to various collieries and a 'Mineral Loop' line was built to avoid reversal at Cinderford and the steep gradient from Speech House Road to Serridge Junction.
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Branches from Broadwell led north to the New Found Out coal mine, and south to the Darkhill Ironworks, where it linked with a Severn and Wye Railway branch from Parkend
Here the line met the Severn and Wye Railway just before Lydbrook Junction.