Midford railway station

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Midford railway station was a single-platform station on the Bath extension of the Somerset and Dorset Railway, just to the north of the point where the double-track became a single track. It served the village of Midford. The station was closed with the rest of the line in March 1966 under the Beeching axe, though it had been unstaffed for some years before that.

There was a small goods yard to the north of the station, towards the entrance to the Combe Down Tunnel. South of the station, a signal box presided over the double track junction: the railway then ran across the Midford valley on a high viaduct that still exists in part.

For a period of only around 20 years, Midford had a second station on the Great Western Railway's Limpley Stoke to Camerton branch line that was built over the old Somersetshire Coal Canal.