Yeovil Town railway station

Yeovil Town

Yeovil Town in 1964
Location
Place Yeovil
Area Somerset
Operations
Original company Bristol and Exeter Railway
Pre-grouping GWR/LSWR Joint
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
History
1 June 1861 Station opens
3 October 1966 Closed for passenger traffic
3 March 1967 Station closes [1]
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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This date stone is all that remains of Yeovil's most central railway station

Yeovil Town railway station was a railway station serving the town of Yeovil in Somerset, England. The station was located on the Yeovil to Taunton Line and also had shuttle services to Pen Mill and Yeovil Junction stations. The station opened on 1 June 1861, replacing an earlier Yeovil Hendford railway station when the line was extended.[1] It closed to passenger traffic on 3 October 1966, but freight and parcels traffic continued to use the station until 3 March 1967, when these services were also withdrawn.

The site today

The site served for years as a car and coach park but now has a cinema and leisure complex built on it.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Hendford Halt   Great Western Railway
Yeovil to Taunton Line
  Yeovil Junction or Yeovil Pen Mill
Shuttle Service

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd

Further reading

Coordinates: 50°56′N 2°38′W / 50.933°N 2.633°W / 50.933; -2.633


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