Evershot railway station

Evershot was a railway station in the county of Dorset in England. Served by trains on what is now known as the Heart of Wessex Line, it was two miles from the village it served at Holywell, just south of Evershot Tunnel. The station consisted of two platforms, a small goods yard and signal box. It had a station building on the up platform.

History

Opened on the 20th of January, 1857 by the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway, it became part of the Great Western Railway. Remaining in that company in the grouping of 1923, it was placed in the Western Region when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The station closed when local trains were withdrawn during the Beeching purges, taking effect on the 3rd October, 1966.

Accident

An accident which resulted in the death of a railway staff member took place near this station in 1865. [http://myancestors.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/fatal-railway-accident-at-evershot/]

The Site Today

Some remains of the station can be seen in the wide area it occupied just south of the tunnel.

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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

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