Pylle railway station
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Pylle railway station was a station on the Highbridge branch of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
. Opened on 3 February 1862, it was reduced to halt status on 4 November 1957. Originally the S&DJR main line, the railway was reduced to branch status when the extension from Evercreech Junction
to Bath was built. A passing point on the single line, the station's loop was removed long before it closed, with the railway, on 7 March 1966.
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Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway – almost always referred to as "the S&D" – was an English railway line connecting Bath in north east Somerset and Bournemouth now in south east Dorset but then in Hampshire...
. Opened on 3 February 1862, it was reduced to halt status on 4 November 1957. Originally the S&DJR main line, the railway was reduced to branch status when the extension from Evercreech Junction
Evercreech Junction railway station
Evercreech Junction was a railway station at Evercreech on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.Originally opened in 1862 as "Evercreech" on the original S&D line from Burnham-on-Sea to Broadstone, it became in 1874 the junction for the northwards extension towards Bath that bankrupted the company...
to Bath was built. A passing point on the single line, the station's loop was removed long before it closed, with the railway, on 7 March 1966.
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ISBN 1 85260 508 1External links
- http://www.sdjr.net/locations/pylle.html
- Station on navigable O.S. map