Draycott railway station

For the station in Derbyshire, see Draycott and Breaston railway station.

Draycott
The remains of the station in 1995
General information
Location	Draycott, Somerset England
Grid reference	ST474506
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Bristol and Exeter Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
5 April 1870	Opened
9 September 1963	Closed [1]
Location

Draycott railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Draycott, Somerset.

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. All the railways involved were absorbed into the Great Western Railway in the 1870s.

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		Great Western Railway Cheddar Valley Railway		Lodge Hill

References

1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens

• Oakley, Mike (October 2002). Somerset Railway Stations. Wimborne: Dovecote Press. p. 52. ISBN   1-904349-09-9.

51°15′10″N2°45′17″W / 51.25279°N 2.754661°W / 51.25279; -2.754661 (Draycott railway station)