Hundreds of people have signed an online petition calling for the reopening of Bristol Road railway station in Stonehouse.
The station was closed in 1966 during the Beeching cuts and the railway line passes through Stonehouse from the South West and Bristol to Gloucester and Birmingham.
More than 600 people have now signed the e-petition calling on Gloucestershire County Council to support the move and help reopen it as "Stroudwater Station".
The petition's organiser, Carol Kambites, described the station's reopening as "a no brainer".
The county council said it is "committed to exploring all options" and has started developed a large county-wide study into public transport use and provision.
Stonehouse, which has a population of 8,000 people, and its surrounding areas is set for a surge in population with thousands of homes proposed to be built over the next two decades.
At the moment, Stonehouse residents who work in Bristol and choose to use public transport have to travel more than 30 minutes to Gloucester or Cheltenham, or even Swindon, to then get a train city.
This means they are making a two-hour maximum public transport trip in what is a 45-minute car journey.
A separate railway line, Gloucester to London, runs through the town which its stop is Stonehouse Railway Station.
The petition says the reopening of the railway station would link to a catchment area of 55,000 people, and is an "affordable, sustainable and deliverable" project.
Carol Kambites, who is also Stonehouse Town Council's deputy mayor, told the LDRS: "It just seems like the right time to push this, so much has changed. Where we are in the Stroud Valleys there is just no sustainable way to get to Bristol.
"It makes no sense when there is a railway line going through Stonehouse, we just need the trains to stop.
"As new houses fill up, my feeling is that many of those will be people who will commute to Bristol or near the city. It just seems so silly that we do not have a direct link to what is our regional centre."
Ms Kambites said they need the county council's support to bid Network Rail money in the New Stations Fund which was set up to create new stations and restore those that have closed.
She added: "It is such a no brainer, it is such an obvious thing to do. Now is the time to do it, and there is a lot of public support."
Steve Hyndside, who lives near Stonehouse, says he had to make a 12-mile round trip on his bicycle before the lockdown so he could get to Bristol for work from the Cam & Dursley Railway Station.
He said: "Every single day it costs me 40 minutes of my life each half of the day. So around an hour and a half of my day this is costing time, it is completely needless. It will have a real impact.
"This is a huge issue for a lot of people in Stonehouse and the surrounding villages because this is a huge catchment area. If you go on car-sharing websites, you will see loads of people in this area going down to Bristol.
"At the moment it is so easy and quick to jump in the car and drive down to Bristol, but it is such an awful experience having to get a train to Gloucester or Swindon and then travelling to Bristol. It is just bonkers."
As of August 21, midday, the petition has attracted 628 signatures, and can be found here.
Gloucestershire County Councillor Nigel Moor, (C, Stow-on-the-Wold) cabinet member responsible for strategic transport on the county council, said: “We are committed to exploring all options to increase passenger numbers and improve connectivity on our sustainable transport networks.
"We have started developing a large county-wide study which will model public transport use and provision. This will allow us to better plan for important public transport decisions in the future within our Local Transport Plan.
"This study will continue to explore the strategic factors we need to consider before introducing any new stations, such as journey times, reliability, line speed and if the route will be used for freight as well as local commuter journeys.
“We are aware there are limited opportunities for new stations along the line so we need to make sure any decisions we make provide the maximum benefit to Gloucestershire residents.
"We are interested in exploring the options presented by the Government’s New Station Fund and will be involving partners in these discussions to make sure any changes to the network meet the needs and vision of the county both now and in future.”
Earlier this year a decision was taken by the West of England Combined Authority to increase train services between Bristol and Gloucester, as part of the Metrowest 2 project.
The proposal will create a half-hourly service and is due to start in May 2022.
In a statement, the county council said the Gloucester extension was "considered a preferable terminating point for the services because less significant infrastructure interventions are anticipated whilst extending the communities within reach of the MetroWest services."
The most recent rail study the county council has taken is its Rail Investment Strategy, published in March.
It considered two additional stations, a potential hub station next to junction 11 of the M5 and a South Gloucestershire hub station.
