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The Camerton branch had been built in 1882 from Hallatrow to Camerton, and extended in 1910 through Monkton Combe, where the station and level-crossing were built, to Limpley Stoke railway station, where it joined up with the line from Bath to Bradford-on-Avon railway station. [1] [2]
The new Bristol and North Somerset Railway (B&NSR) line met the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway (WS&WR) line at Radstock, but that was a broad gauge line, so there was a break of gauge at Radstock. The opening of the B&NSR activated a neglected obligation on the GWR: in February 1874 the GWR board recorded that:
This station and all trains serving it are run by Great Western Railway. It was opened as Combe Halt by the Great Western Railway in 1935, originally having two platforms. [1] In 2012, it was equipped with the modern Customer Information display screen now found on most First Great Western stations, plus an automatic train announcement system.
Monkton Combe is a village and civil parish in north Somerset, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Bath. The parish, which includes the hamlet of Tucking Mill, had a population of 554 in 2013. [1] It was formerly known as Combe, owing to its geography, while it was also known as Monckton Combe and Combe Monckton until last century.
The Merredin to Narrogin railway line opened on 14 September 1914, having gradually been constructed since 1908, and thereby connecting the line with the Eastern Goldfields Railway at Merredin. [4] On 10 October 1918, the Wagin to Bowelling railway line was opened, connecting this line to the Brunswick Junction to Narrogin railway at Bowelling. [4]
Monkton Combe; Monkton Combe Halt railway station; Monkton Combe School; P. Harry Patch; S. St Michael's Church, Monkton Combe This page was last edited on 13 ...
The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR, also known as the S&D, S&DR or SDJR), was an English railway line jointly owned by the Midland Railway (MR) and the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) that grew to connect Bath (in north-east Somerset) and Bournemouth (then in Hampshire; now in south-east Dorset), with a branch in Somerset from Evercreech Junction to Burnham-on-Sea and Bridgwater.
The line was only open to passenger traffic for seven years in all, from 1910 to 1915, [2] and from 1923 to 1925; Midford Halt opened a year late and then did not reopen for the second period. Midford Halt was in Wiltshire ; the county boundary runs up to the B3110 road at the point where the canal and railway crossed the road, and the halt was ...