Blagdon railway station is a closed terminus railway station situated in the village of Blagdon in North Somerset, England.
The station opened on the 4 December 1901 when the Wrington Vale Light Railway opened the line from Congresbury.[1]
The station closed to passengers on 14 September 1931.[1]
Despite the station being closed for passengers it was host to a GWR camp coach from 1935 to 1939.[2] Camp coach occupants were transported to the station on the daily goods train from Yatton.[3]
The station closed to goods on 1 November 1950.[4] The site is now a private house.[5]
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Blagdon Lake lies in a valley at the northern edge of the Mendip Hills, close to the village of Blagdon and approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of Bristol...
Wrington railwaystation was a station at Wrington on the Wrington Vale Light Railway, which ran from Congresbury to Blagdon, in Somerset, England. The...
The Wrington Vale Light Railway was a railway from Congresbury on the Cheddar Valley line to Blagdon, and serving villages in the Yeo Valley, North Somerset...
Westonzoyland Pumping Station, Somerset Used to pump drinking water from a reservoir into a water supply system. Blagdon Pumping Station, Chew Valley, Somerset...
known as Blagdon Lake, enabled the construction of the Wrington Vale Light Railway, from Congresbury on the Cheddar Valley line to Blagdon. The GWR provided...
Light Railway to Blagdon. The station was opened with the broad gauge line to Cheddar on 3 August 1869 as a single-platform station. The railway was extended...
was established as a result of the arrival of the railway. What is now New Malden railwaystation was opened on 1 December 1846 on the main line from...
(2002). Somerset RailwayStations. Wimborne: Dovecote Press. ISBN 978-1-904349-09-9. Butt, RJV (1995). The Directory of RailwayStations. Patrick Stevens...
gated communities. In 2010, Haggerston railwaystation re-opened, a little to the north of the original station. In 1086, Haggerston was first recorded...
village square is home to four public houses, including the Grade II listed Blagdon Arms. Cramlington Cricket club (CCC) [1] are based at Cramlington learning...
Abbotsbury, Arley (1938 only), Ashton, Avonwick, Axbridge, Bampton, Blagdon (station had closed in 1931, line was open for freight) Blue Anchor, Bourton-on-the-Water...
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Burrington railwaystation served the village of Burrington, North Somerset, England, from 1901 to 1950 on the Wrington Vale Light Railway. The station was opened...
(1869) and the Wrington Vale Light Railway (1901) to Blagdon from Congresbury. Although the branch line to Blagdon was closed to passengers in 1932, and...
is often used less formally to cover other nearby areas, for example, Blagdon Lake and its environs, which by a stricter definition are part of the Yeo...
ore was extracted from the hill above and east of Axbridge. Axbridge railwaystation, on the Cheddar Valley line, opened on 3 August 1869. It closed to...
also the starting point for the Wrington Vale Light Railway, which went to nearby Wrington and Blagdon. Congresbury is named after St Congar, who is said...
Bookouture. ISBN 978-1-838888-41-1. "At last! Barnstaple's bus station links directly with railway". Radio Exe. Retrieved 30 May 2022. Clarke, Lewis (29 May...
coal for the station. Coal had been provided by the Delhi surface mine at Blagdon, owned by Banks Developments, since 2002. It finished extracting coal in...
The Mendip transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility on the summit of Pen Hill, part of the Mendip Hills range in Somerset...
Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches; the South. London: Collins; p. 115 Blagdon-Gamlen, Fr Peter E. (1973). "The Church Travellers Directory" (PDF). St...
which created it in 1956 when the demand became too large for nearby Blagdon Lake. Working with the Avon Wildlife Trust, Somerset Wildlife Trust and...
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