Wellow, Somerset railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Wellow
gridref = ST739581


caption = Wellow station, in private residential use, September 2007
manager = Somerset and Dorset Railway
owner = SR and LMSR
Western Region of British Railways
locale = Wellow
borough = Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset
platforms = 2
years = 20 July 1874
events = Station opened
years2 = 7 March 1966
events2 = Station closed

Wellow railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway at Wellow in the county of Somerset in England. Opened on 20 July 1874, the station consisted of two platforms, a goods yard and sidings, controlled from an 18 lever signal box. The station closed to goods in 1963: passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed on 7 March 1966.

The Site Today

The station is now a private house, and the signalbox at the northern end of the down platform has also been converted for residential use. The station's canopy is still visible from nearby green space where the rail track ran south of the station. The house sports a weather vane with a steam engine finial.

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Further reading

*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1

External references

* [http://www.sdjr.net/locations/wellow.html Wellow station on SDJR website]
* [http://www.gebejay.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/s&d-midwellow.html Wellow station and signal box]
* [http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#373,157,1 Wellow station on navigable 1946 O. S. map]