- Cole (for Bruton) railway station
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Cole (for Bruton) Location Place Cole Area South Somerset Grid reference ST671334 Operations Pre-grouping Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway Post-grouping SR and LMSR
Western Region of British RailwaysPlatforms 2 History 3 February 1862 Opened 7 March 1966 Closed 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–ZCole (for Bruton) railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Railway in South Somerset, serving the village of Cole, which is now virtually joined to the village of Pitcombe and the small town of Bruton.
Cole was the station where the Dorset Central Railway line from Templecombe met the Somerset Central Railway line from Glastonbury and Street railway station in 1862. Later that year the two companies combined to form the Somerset and Dorset Railway.
Just north of the station the line crossed the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway although the two railways were not connected here.
Cole station was closed with the railway in the Beeching cuts in 1966.
Preceding station Disused railways Following station Wincanton
Line and station closedSomerset & Dorset Joint Railway
LSWR & Midland RailwaysEvercreech Junction
Line and station closedReferences
- Somerset Railway Stations, by Mike Oakley (Dovecote Press, 2002)
External links
Categories:- Disused railway stations in Somerset
- Former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway stations
- Railway stations opened in 1862
- Railway stations closed in 1966
- Beeching closures in England
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