Camerton branch

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Camerton branch
Legend B&NSR main line) Hallatrow (B&NSR) B&NSR main line) Paulton Radford and Timsbury Dunkerton colliery Dunkerton Combe Hay Midford Monkton Combe Wessex Main Line to Bath Spa Limpley Stoke Wessex Main Line to Westbury

The Camerton branch was a railway line from the Bristol and North Somerset Railway (part of the Great Western Railway), to Limpley Stoke in 1910, where it joined the Wessex Main Line. It opened from Hallatrow (on the B&NSR) in 1882 to Camerton. , and was extended in 1910 along the line of the former Somerset Coal Canal to Limpley Stoke. It was mainly used for coal - in particular, the colliery at Camerton. The original line from Hallatrow to Camerton closed in 1932, with Camerton becoming the western terminus - having also been the eastern terminus and a through station. No other example of this is knowm.

Traffic on the line was never heavy: passenger services were suspended in 1915, resumed in 1923 and finally withdrawn in 1925. Goods traffic remained until 1951.

Stations:

• Hallatrow (B&NSR main line)
• Paulton Halt (opened 1914)
• Radford and Timsbury Halt (opened 1910)
• Camerton (opened 1882, and termnius of original line)
• Dunkerton Colliery Halt (opened 1911)
• Dunkerton (opened 1910)
• Combe Hay Halt (opened 1910)
• Midford (opened 1910 and not connected to the Somerset and Dorset Railway station at Midford)
• Monkton Combe Halt (opened 1910)
• Limpley Stoke (on Wessex Main Line)

[edit] External Links

• Signalling of the Camerton Branch