Sandford and Banwell railway station
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Sandford and Banwell railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset, England.
The station was opened as "Sandford" 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. All the railways involved were absorbed into the Great Western Railway in the 1870s.
The Yatton to Witham line closed to passengers in 1963. Sandford and Banwell station was used initially by Somerset County Council highways department for storage and was later taken over by a local company, Sandford Stone, which kept it in a well-preserved condition until it went into liquidation. The site is now the subject of a second planning application following rejection of plans to build a retirement development on the site.[1]
[edit] Services
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Congresbury Line and station closed |
Cheddar Valley Railway Great Western Railway |
Winscombe Line and station closed |
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[edit] References
- ^ "New plans for care village", Cheddar Valley Gazette, 8 November 2007. Retrieved on 2007-12-20.
- Oakley, Mike (2002). Somerset Railway Stations. Wimborne: Dovecote Press, pp 105.
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