Templecombe railway station

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Templecombe railway station serves the town of Templecombe in Somerset, UK. The station reopened in 1984 having been closed in the 1960s under the Beeching axe. The station is situated on the West of England Main Line between London and Exeter and is operated by South West Trains. The station has one platform as the double track section from Yeovil does not extend into the platforms. This can leave trains waiting just outside the station when two trains pass at this point on the line.

The original Templecombe station was the junction between the London and South Western Railway mainline and the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&D). A complex junction arrangement meant that S&D through trains between Bath and Bournemouth had to reverse into, or out from, the mainline platforms at Templecombe, a manoeuvre that usually took around 20 minutes. Some faster trains on the S&D did not stop at Templecombe, or used a small single low-level platform on the through line, connected by a path to the main station. The S&D also had a substantial locomotive shed at Templecombe: in British Railways days, the shed number was 82G.