Symonds Yat railway station

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Symonds Yat
Symonds Yat train.jpg
Symonds Yat Tunnel with train emerging 1895
General information
Location Symonds Yat, Herefordshire
England
Coordinates 51°50′18″N2°38′19″W / 51.8384°N 2.6387°W / 51.8384; -2.6387
Grid reference SO561157
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-grouping Ross and Monmouth Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Key dates
4 August 1873Opened
5 January 1959Closed

Symonds Yat railway station is a disused railway station on the Ross and Monmouth Railway constructed on the banks of the River Wye in Symonds Yat East.

Opened in 1873, it consisted of two platforms and a timber station building on the down platform, it closed in 1959 with the closure of the line. [1] [2] The railways were at first used as a quick means of bringing the boats back from Chepstow. [3]

Symonds Yat station site, now buried under a car park Symonds Yat station site in 2018.jpg.jpg
Symonds Yat station site, now buried under a car park

A camping coach was positioned here by the Western Region from 1953 to 1958; an early form of self-catering accommodation which used converted redundant railway carriages for occupation by holidaymakers who could arrive and depart by train. [4] Today the station site has long been levelled but the foundations of the station building and platforms remain and the area now forms a car parking area for a local hotel inn.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Hadnock Halt   Ross and Monmouth Railway
British Railways 		  Lydbrook Junction

References

  1. ↑ Handley, Brian M.; Dingwall, Rod (1982). The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch. Oakwood Press. ISBN   978-0-85361-530-9.
  2. ↑ Parkhouse, BRHIC, Vol 1, pp. 188–191, 6: The Ross & Monmouth Railway.
  3. ↑ Kissack, Keith E. (1975). Monmouth: The Making of a County Town. London: Phillimore & Co. p. 255. ISBN   978-0-85033-209-4.
  4. ↑ McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Scenes from the Past. Vol. 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 95. ISBN   1-870119-53-3.



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