Bawdrip railway station
Encyclopedia
Bawdrip Halt was a station at Bawdrip
on the Bridgwater
branch of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
. Opened on 7 July 1923, it consisted of a single concrete platform with a modest concrete building.
The station closed when the branch service was withdrawn on 1 December 1952.
Bawdrip
Bawdrip is a village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England. The village is on the south side of the Polden Hills about north-east of Bridgwater. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 498. The parish includes the hamlets of Bradney and Horsey...
on the Bridgwater
Bridgwater North railway station
Bridgwater North railway station was the terminus of the Bridgwater branch of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. Opened as part of the Bridgwater Railway on 21 July 1890, it was named Bridgwater, and renamed Bridgwater North in 1949 when it came under British Railways ownership, to avoid...
branch of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway – almost always referred to as "the S&D" – was an English railway line connecting Bath in north east Somerset and Bournemouth now in south east Dorset but then in Hampshire...
. Opened on 7 July 1923, it consisted of a single concrete platform with a modest concrete building.
The station closed when the branch service was withdrawn on 1 December 1952.
External links
- http://www.sdjr.net/locations/bawdrip.html
- Station on navigable O.S. map