Keinton Mandeville | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Keinton Mandeville, South Somerset |
Country: | England |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Platforms: | 2 |
Pregroup: | Great Western Railway |
Postgroup: | Great Western Railway |
Years: | 1 July 1905 |
Events: | Opened |
Years2: | 10 September 1962 |
Events2: | Closed |
Keinton Mandeville railway station was a small railway station situated on the Great Western Railway's Langport and Castle Cary Railway. It was located is in the village of Lydford-on-Fosse but was named the larger neighbouring village of Keinton Mandeville in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England.
The station opened on 1 July 1905, at the same time as and the two stations were operated as a temporary branch from before the railway opened throughout as a whole the following year.[1]
The station had two platforms and a building, as well as a small goods yard behind the east platform.[2]
No sign of the station now remains, the site is now a scrap yard. The line is still in use as part of the Reading–Taunton line.