Draycott (Somerset) railway station
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Draycott railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset.
The station was opened with the extension of the broad gauge line from Cheddar to Wells in April 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. All the railways involved were absorbed into the Great Western Railway in the 1870s.
The Yatton to Witham line closed to passengers in 1963, though goods traffic passed through to Cheddar until 1969. Draycott station, one of the smaller stations on the line, is now in residential use and still boasts many of the original Bristol and Exeter Railway features.
[edit] Services
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheddar Line and station closed |
Cheddar Valley Railway Great Western Railway |
Lodge Hill Line and station closed |
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[edit] References
- Somerset Railway Stations by Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 2002, page 52.
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