Glastonbury and Street railway station explained

Glastonbury and Street
Status:Disused
Borough:Glastonbury, Mendip
Country:England
Grid Name:Grid reference
Platforms:3
Pregroup:Somerset Central Railway
Postgroup:SR and LMS
Western Region of British Railways
Years:28 August 1854
Events:Opened (Glastonbury)
Years1:July 1886
Events1:Renamed (Glastonbury and Street)
Years2:7 March 1966
Events2:Closed

Glastonbury and Street railway station was the biggest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway main line from Highbridge to Evercreech Junction until closed in 1966 under the Beeching axe. It was the junction for the short branch line to Wells which closed in 1951.

Opened in 1854 as Glastonbury, and renamed in 1886 to show that it also served the adjacent village of Street, it had three platforms, two for Evercreech to Highbridge services and one for the branch service to Wells. The station had a large goods yard controlled from a signal box.[1]

The site today

The site is now used by a timber merchant and for storage. Replica level crossing gates have been placed at the entrance.[2] The former railway station canopy is now used as a shelter in the market area car park in Glastonbury.[3]

External links

51.1479°N -2.7295°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: S & D - Glastonbury on sdjr.net . 25 September 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110506140613/http://www.sdjr.net/locations/glastonbury.html . 6 May 2011 . dead .
  2. http://www.nevard.com/sdjr/glastonbury.htm The Somerset & Dorset after closure - Glastonbury on Nevard.com
  3. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/jim.nagel/ap/consoc/000contents/canopy.html Glastonbury Conservation Society