Ashcombe Road | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Weston-super-Mare, Somerset |
Country: | England |
Platforms: | 1 |
Original: | Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway |
Pregroup: | Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway |
Events: | Opened |
Events1: | Closed |
Weston-super-Mare Ashcombe Road railway station served the town of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, from 1897 to 1940 on the Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway.
The station opened on 1 December 1897 by the Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway. It had toilets and a waiting room. The platform was ten inches high until raised in 1919. The railway was intended to carry on past this station but the track was removed after a dispute with the council.[1] The station closed on 20 May 1940.[2] A florists occupies the site of the booking office while a footpath follows part of the trackbed.[3]