Cole (for Bruton) railway station explained

Cole (for Bruton)
Status:Disused
Borough:Cole, South Somerset
Country:England
Grid Name:Grid reference
Platforms:2
Original:Dorset Central Railway
Pregroup:Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
Postgroup:SR and LMSR
Western Region of British Railways
Years:3 February 1862
Events:Opened
Years1:7 March 1966
Events1:Closed[1]

Cole (for Bruton) railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Railway in South Somerset, serving the village of Cole, which is now virtually joined to the village of Pitcombe and the town of Bruton.

Cole was the station where the Dorset Central Railway line from Templecombe met the Somerset Central Railway line from Glastonbury and Street railway station in 1862. Later that year the two companies combined to form the Somerset and Dorset Railway.

Just north of the station the line crossed the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway although the two railways were not connected here.

The goods yard closed on 5 April 1965[2] and Cole station was closed with the railway in the Beeching cuts in 1966.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Quick, M E. Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. 2002. Railway and Canal Historical Society. Richmond. 133. 931112387.
  2. Somerset and Dorset then and now by Mac Hawkins page 138