Evershot railway station

Evershot
Evershot
	Site of the station (1995)
General information
Location	Holywell, Dorset ; England
Coordinates	50°50′07″N2°34′48″W / 50.8353°N 2.5801°W Coordinates: 50°50′07″N2°34′48″W / 50.8353°N 2.5801°W
Grid reference	ST591041
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway; Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
20 January 1857	Station opens
3 October 1966	Station closes

Last updated June 27, 2022

Evershot was a railway station in the county of Dorset in England. Served by trains on what is now known as the Heart of Wessex Line, it was two miles from the village it served, at Holywell, just south of Evershot Tunnel. The station consisted of two platforms, a small goods yard and signal box. It had a station building on the up platform.

History

Opened on 20 January 1857 by the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway,^[1] it became part of the Great Western Railway. Remaining in that company in the grouping of 1923, it was placed in the Western Region when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The station closed when local trains were withdrawn during the Beeching closures, taking effect on 3 October 1966.^[1]

Accident

An accident which resulted in the death of a railway staff member took place near this station in 1865.^[2]

The site today

Some remains of the station can be seen in the wide area it occupied just south of the tunnel.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Chetnole Halt Line and station open		Great Western Railway Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway		Cattistock Halt Line open, station closed

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References

1 2 Butt 1995 , p. 93
↑ "Fatal Railway Accident at Evershot". Family Connections. 1 September 2007. Retrieved 2 October 2007.

Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.

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[Butt-1] 1 2 Butt 1995 , p. 93

[2] "Fatal Railway Accident at Evershot". Family Connections. 1 September 2007. Retrieved 2 October 2007.

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