Glastonbury and Street railway station
- Glastonbury and Street railway station
Infobox UK disused station
name = Glastonbury and Street
gridref = ST491389
caption =
manager = Somerset Central Railway
owner = SR and LMS
Southern Region of British Railways
locale = Glastonbury
borough = Mendip
platforms = 2
years = 28 August 1854
events = Opened (Glastonbury)
years1 = July 1886
events1 = Renamed (Glastonbury and Street)
years1 = 7 March 1966
events1 = 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, 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. [ [http://www.sdjr.net/locations/glastonbury.html S & D - Glastonbury on sdjr.net] ]
The site today
The site is now a timber yard for a local company. Replica level crossing gates have been placed at the entrance. [ [http://www.nevard.com/sdjr/glastonbury.htm The Somerset & Dorset after closure - Glastonbury on Nevard.com] ] The former railway station canopy is now used as a shelter in the market area car park in Glastonbury. [ [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/jim.nagel/ap/consoc/000contents/canopy.html Glastonbury Conservation Society] ]
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