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The line through Wiltshire and Somerset was completed in stages, after the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway (WS&WR) was authorised by Parliament in 1845. The first section to be opened, in 1848, ran from Thingley junction to the west of Chippenham on the Great Western Railway , via Melksham and Trowbridge to Westbury . [ 4 ]
The West Somerset Railway (WSR) is a 22.75-mile (36.6 km) heritage railway line in Somerset, England.The freehold of the line and stations is owned by Somerset Council.The railway is leased to and operated by West Somerset Railway plc (WSR plc), which is supported and minority-owned by the West Somerset Railway Association (WSRA) charitable trust and the West Somerset Railway Heritage Trust ...
There were no injuries. [24] On 6 December 2011, a train was derailed at Westbury. [25] On 24 January 2013, a passenger train caught fire at Upwey. [26] On 20 March 2017, a freight train was derailed at East Somerset Junction. [27] The line was closed until 25 March. [28]
D7523 was based on the West Somerset Railway from 30 April 1996 until it moved to the Epping Ongar Railway in September 2011. [169] Class 14: D9551 1968 1981 - 2003 One of three Class 14s that have been based on the West Somerset Railway at various times, D9551 arrived in June 1981 after having been in industrial service at Corby Steelworks. [170]
The West of England line (also known as the West of England Main Line) is a British railway line from Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Exeter St Davids in Devon, England. Passenger services run between London Waterloo station and Exeter; the line intersects with the Wessex Main Line at Salisbury .
Crowcombe Heathfield station was first opened on 31 March 1862 when the West Somerset Railway was opened from Norton Junction to Watchet.The railway was operated by the Bristol and Exeter Railway which became a part of the Great Western Railway in 1876, but the West Somerset Railway remained an independent company until 1922 when it too was absorbed by the Great Western.
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Beyond the station, on the right, used to be the carriage works of the Bristol and Exeter Railway [10] but the site is now lost beneath modern industrial units. The line now crosses over the River Parrett on the Somerset Bridge and then passes below the M5 again. The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal now joins on the right for most of the way to ...