Cole (for Bruton) railway station

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Cole (for Bruton)
Cole (former) station geograph-3086251-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
Location of station (1984)
General information
LocationCole, South Somerset
England
Grid reference ST671334
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Dorset Central Railway
Pre-grouping Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
Post-grouping SR and LMSR
Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
3 February 1862Opened
7 March 1966Closed [1]

Cole (for Bruton) railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Railway in South Somerset, serving the village of Cole, which is now virtually joined to the village of Pitcombe and the town of Bruton.

Cole was the station where the Dorset Central Railway line from Templecombe met the Somerset Central Railway line from Glastonbury and Street railway station in 1862. Later that year the two companies combined to form the Somerset and Dorset Railway.

Just north of the station the line crossed the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway although the two railways were not connected here.

The goods yard closed on 5 April 1965 [2] and Cole station was closed with the railway in the Beeching cuts in 1966.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Wincanton
Line and station closed
  Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway
LSWR and Midland Railways
  Evercreech Junction
Line and station closed

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References

  1. Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 133. OCLC   931112387.
  2. Somerset and Dorset then and now by Mac Hawkins page 138

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