Blagdon railway station

Blagdon
The site of the station in 1963
General information
Location	Blagdon, North Somerset England
Coordinates	51°20′00″N2°42′48″W / 51.3333°N 2.7133°W / 51.3333; -2.7133
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Wrington Vale Light Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
4 December 1901	Station opened
14 September 1931	Station closed to passengers
1 November 1950	Station closed to goods
Location

Blagdon railway station is a closed terminus railway station situated in the village of Blagdon in North Somerset, England.

The station opened on the 4 December 1901 when the Wrington Vale Light Railway opened the line from Congresbury. ^[1]

The station closed to passengers on 14 September 1931. ^[1]

Despite the station being closed for passengers it was host to a GWR camp coach from 1935 to 1939. ^[2] Camp coach occupants were transported to the station on the daily goods train from Yatton. ^[3]

The station closed to goods on 1 November 1950. ^[4] The site is now a private house. ^[5]

References

1. Quick 2022, p. 87.
2. McRae 1997, p. 31.
3. Fenton 1999, pp. 46–47.
4. Hurst 1992, p. 5 (ref 0161).
5. "Blagdon Station, converted to private... © Ben Brooksbank cc-by-sa/2.0 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland". Geograph. Retrieved 23 June 2022.

Bibliography

• Fenton, Mike (1999), Camp Coach Holidays on the G.W.R, Wild Swan, ISBN   1-874103-53-4
• Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991 . Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN   0-9477-9618-5.
• McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. ISBN   1-870119-48-7.
• Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.