Wellow, Somerset railway station

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Wellow
Wellow station, in private residential use, September 2007
Location
Location	Wellow
Area	Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset
Grid reference	ST739581
Operations
Pre-grouping	Somerset and Dorset Railway
Post-grouping	SR and LMSR Western Region of British Railways
Platforms	2
History
20 July 1874	Station opened
7 March 1966	Station closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D-F G H-J K-L M-O P-R S T-Z
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Wellow railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway at Wellow in the county of Somerset in England. Opened on 20 July 1874, the station consisted of two platforms, a goods yard and sidings, controlled from an 18 lever signal box.

The station closed to goods in 1963: passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed on 7 March 1966.

[edit] The Site Today

The station is now a private house, and the signalbox at the northern end of the down platform has also been converted for residential use. The station's canopy is still visible from nearby green space where the rail track ran south of the station. The house sports a weather vane with a steam engine finial.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Shoscombe and Single Hill Halt Line and station closed		Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway LSWR & Midland Railways		Midford Line and station closed

[edit] Further reading

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd.  ISBN 1 85260 508 1

[edit] External references

• http://www.sdjr.net/locations/wellow.html
• http://www.gebejay.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/s&d-midwellow.html