Radstock North railway station

Radstock North
Location
Place	Radstock
Area	Bath and North East Somerset
Grid reference	ST689550
Operations
Pre-grouping	Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
Post-grouping	SR and LMSR Western Region of British Railways
Platforms	2
History
20 July 1874	Opened (Radstock)
26 September 1949	Renamed (Radstock North)
7 March 1966	Closed
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Radstock North railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway in the county of Somerset in England. Opened as Radstock on 20 July 1874, it was renamed in 1949 to differentiate it from the other Radstock station on the former Bristol and North Somerset Railway, later GWR, which became Radstock West in what is now Westfield. The station consisted of two platforms, a goods yard and cattle dock. The extensive collieries in the area also supported a locomotive depot and wagon works. These operations were controlled from two signal boxes.

The station closed to goods in 1964: passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed in 1966, although a link was constructed to the GWR line to allow access to Writhlington Colliery, now a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Accident

A head on collision at Foxcote near Radstock was the worst accident in the line's history.[1]

The Site Today

The site is now a green space alongside a road.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Midsomer Norton South Line and station closed		Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway LSWR & Midland Railways		Shoscombe and Single Hill Halt Line and station closed

Further reading

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd.  ISBN 1 85260 508 1

External links

• [2]
• Station on navigable O.S. map

Coordinates: 51°17′36″N 2°26′51″W / 51.29327°N 2.44740°W / 51.29327; -2.44740