Binegar railway station

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Binegar
Binegar railway station in 1967.jpg
Binegar railway station in 1967
General information
Location Binegar, Mendip
England, United Kingdom
Grid reference ST616492
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-grouping Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
Post-grouping SR and LMSR
Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
20 July 1874Opened
7 March 1966 [1] Closed
Binegar Station in 1963 Binegar railway station 1799708 139f6ea6.jpg
Binegar Station in 1963

Binegar railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway in the county of Somerset in England. Opened on 20 July 1874, the station consisted of two platforms, with a building on the down platform. There was a substantial goods yard with two sheds and sidings, controlled from a 24 lever signal box. Being the first station north of the line's summit at Masbury Binegar was also where locomotives used as banking engines on north-bound trains would drop off and cross the line ready to return south.

Contents

The station closed to goods in 1963: passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed on 7 March 1966.

Accident

There were several fatalities in two accidents near this station in the 1880s.

The site today

The site is now occupied by a large private house. [2]

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Masbury
Line and station closed
  Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway
LSWR and Midland Railways
  Chilcompton
Line and station closed

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References

  1. Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 77. OCLC   931112387.
  2. "SDJR - Binegar Station". www.gebejay.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 February 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

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