Wookey railway station

Wookey railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset. It was close to the famous cave at Wookey Hole.

The station opened in August 1871 about a year after the extension of the broad gauge line from Cheddar to Wells had been built. The line was converted to standard gauge in the mid-1870s and then linked up to the East Somerset Railway to provide through services from Yatton to Witham in 1878. All the railways involved were absorbed into the Great Western Railway in the 1870s.

The Yatton to Witham line closed to passengers in 1963, though goods traffic continued to the paper mills at Wookey until 1965. Wookey station had a small wooden building, unlike some of the other stations on the line which had impressive stone buildings. The site was cleared after closure.

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References

* Somerset Railway Stations by Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 2002, page 138.