Glastonbury and Street railway station information
Former railway station
Glastonbury and Street
Glastonbury and Street station photographed in June 1979. It had been closed to passengers since 1966.
General information
Location
Glastonbury, Mendip England
Grid reference
ST491389
Platforms
3
Other information
Status
Disused
History
Pre-grouping
Somerset Central Railway
Post-grouping
SR and LMS Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
28 August 1854
Opened (Glastonbury)
July 1886
Renamed (Glastonbury and Street)
7 March 1966
Closed
Glastonbury and Street railway station was the biggest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway main line from Highbridge to Evercreech Junction until closed in 1966 under the Beeching axe. It was the junction for the short branch line to Wells which closed in 1951.
Opened in 1854 as Glastonbury, and renamed in 1886 to show that it also served the adjacent village of Street, it had three platforms, two for Evercreech to Highbridge services and one for the branch service to Wells. The station had a large goods yard controlled from a signal box.[1]
^"S & D - Glastonbury on sdjr.net". Archived from the original on 6 May 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2007.
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