Congresbury railway station

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Congresbury railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset and the junction for the Wrington Vale Light Railway to Blagdon.

The station was opened with the broad gauge line to Cheddar in August 1869 as a single-platform station. The railway was extended to Wells in 1870, converted to standard gauge in the mid-1870s and then linked up to the East Somerset Railway to provide through services from Yatton to Witham in 1878.

Congresbury was remodelled as a two-platform station when the Wrington Vale line opened in 1901; with a few exceptions, though, trains on both lines started at Yatton, the junction with the main Bristol and Exeter line.

The Wrington line shut to passenger traffic in 1931, and the Yatton to Witham line closed in 1963. Congresbury remained opened for goods traffic for a few further months, but the station was later demolished, though traces of the platforms can be seen on the Cheddar Valley Railway Walk.

[edit] Services

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Yatton Station remains open		Cheddar Valley Railway Great Western Railway		Sandford and Banwell Line and station closed
Yatton Station remains open		Wrington Vale Light Railway Great Western Railway		Wrington Line and station closed

[edit] References

• Somerset Railway Stations by Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 2002.