Lodge Hill railway station

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Lodge Hill
Location Westbury-sub-Mendip
England
Coordinates 51°13′59″N2°43′10″W / 51.2330°N 2.7195°W / 51.2330; -2.7195 (Lodge Hill railway station) Coordinates: 51°13′59″N2°43′10″W / 51.2330°N 2.7195°W / 51.2330; -2.7195 (Lodge Hill railway station)
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Bristol and Exeter Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Key dates
5 April 1870Opened
9 September 1963Closed [1]
Location
Lodge Hill railway station

Lodge Hill railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset, England from 1870 until 1963. The station served the village of Westbury-sub-Mendip, but was not named Westbury because of the potential for confusion with Westbury, Wiltshire.

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History

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 station was host to a GWR camping coach from 1938 to 1939. [2] A camping coach was also positioned here by the Western Region in 1952. [3]

The Yatton to Witham line closed to passengers in 1963, though goods traffic passed through to Cheddar until 1969.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Draycott
Line and station closed		  Cheddar Valley Railway
Great Western Railway 		  Wookey
Line and station closed

After closure

For a period Bristol Grammar School used the station buildings as an activity centre, [4] but it was later demolished to make way for housing. Stone from the building was used in the construction of buildings at Cranmore on the preserved East Somerset Railway.

Until 2002, the former track bed at the station was used as an airfield for light aircraft.

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References

  1. ↑ Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
  2. ↑ McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 31. ISBN   1-870119-48-7.
  3. ↑ McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 95. ISBN   1-870119-53-3.
  4. ↑ David J. Boardman (July 1969). "The Place of the School Field Centre in the Teaching of Geography". Geography. 54 (3): 319–324. JSTOR   40566845.

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