This article describes the Bristol and North Somerset Railway, between Bristol and Radstock, and the associated Camerton line from Hallatrow to Limpley Stoke.
Bristol and North Somerset Railway
Overview
Owner
British Rail
History
Opened
1873
Closed
1959
Technical
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Old gauge
7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm)
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Bristol and North Somerset Railway
Legend
MR
Bristol & Gloucester Railway
to Gloucester
Bristol Harbour
GWR
Great Western Main Line
to London
Bristol Temple Meads
St Philip's Marsh TMD
River Avon
GWR
Bristol and Exeter Railway
to Exeter
Brislington
Whitchurch Halt
Pensford
Pensford Viaduct
over River Chew
Clutton
Camerton branch
Hallatrow
Farrington Gurney Halt
Paulton Halt
Radford and Timsbury Halt
Camerton
Dunkerton Colliery Halt
Dunkerton
Combe Hay Halt
Midsomer Norton and Welton
Somerset & Dorset Joint Rly
Radstock West
Midford Halt
Monkton Combe Halt
Wessex Main Line
to Bath Spa
Limpley Stoke
Mells Road
Westbury
Wessex Main Line
to Southampton
Whatley Quarry
Heart of Wessex Line
to Westbury
Frome
Heart of Wessex Line
to Weymouth
The Bristol and North Somerset Railway was a railway line in the West of England that connected Bristol with Radstock, through Pensford and further into northern Somerset, to allow access to the Somerset Coalfield. The line ran almost due south from Bristol and was 16 miles (26 km) long.
Opened in 1873, it joined with an existing branch from Frome to Radstock, and was later worked with it as a single entity. In 1882 the Camerton Branch was opened by the Great Western Railway to serve collieries at Camerton; it was later extended to Limpley Stoke, on the Bath to Trowbridge line. It closed to passenger traffic in 1925.
The line's primary traffic was coal, and travel to work commuting into Bristol. Both of these traffic sources substantially declined in the 1950s, with the Camerton Branch fully closed in 1951. Passenger traffic ceased on the rest of the entire line complex before the Beeching Axe in 1959, with complete closure of the line in 1973 following the closure of the last colliery in the Somerset Coalfield at Kilmersdon.
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