Draycott railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset. The Bristol & Exeter Railway was a railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter. History In the middle of the 19th century there were a large number of railway companies operating and this in part led to the line being built in several sections Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county
The station was opened with the extension of the broad gauge line from Cheddar to Wells in April 1870, converted to standard gauge in the mid-1870s and then linked up to the East Somerset Railway to provide through services from Yatton to Witham in 1878. Broad gauge Railways use a Rail gauge (distance between the rails greater than the Standard gauge of. Wells (Tucker Street railway station was the second terminus station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway 's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset after the The East Somerset Railway is a Heritage railway in Somerset, running between Cranmore and Mendip Vale. Yatton railway station serves the village of Yatton in North Somerset, England. This station in Somerset is closed For the open station in East Anglia see Witham railway station. All the railways involved were absorbed into the Great Western Railway in the 1870s. The Great Western Railway ( GWR) was a British railway company and a notable example of Civil engineering, linking London with the West
The Yatton to Witham line closed to passengers in 1963, though goods traffic passed through to Cheddar until 1969. Draycott station, one of the smaller stations on the line, is now in residential use and still boasts many of the original Bristol and Exeter Railway features.
Services
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheddar Line and station closed |
Cheddar Valley Railway Great Western Railway |
Lodge Hill Line and station closed |
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References
- Somerset Railway Stations by Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 2002, page 52. Cheddar railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway 's Cheddar Valley line in Cheddar, Somerset. History In the middle of the 19th century there were a large number of railway companies operating and this in part led to the line being built in several sections The Great Western Railway ( GWR) was a British railway company and a notable example of Civil engineering, linking London with the West Lodge Hill railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway 's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset.
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