Draycott railway station explained

Draycott
Status:Disused
Borough:Draycott, Somerset
Country:England
Grid Name:Grid reference
Original:Bristol and Exeter Railway
Pregroup:Great Western Railway
Postgroup:Great Western Railway
Years:5 April 1870
Events:Opened
Years2:9 September 1963
Events2:Closed[1]

Draycott railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Draycott, 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.

References

51.2528°N -2.7547°W

Notes and References

  1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens