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Opened as Radstock on 20 July 1874, it was located immediately to the northeast of the GWR's Bristol and North Somerset Railway's (B&NSR) Radstock West (1854-1965). However, there was no direct connection between the two competing stations. Due to the extensive collieries in the area sunk into the Somerset Coalfield, the station was more ...
Opened as Radstock on 3 September 1873, [1] the station was renamed Radstock West on 26 September 1949, and closed on 2 November 1959. [1][2] It was located immediately to the southwest of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway's station, Radstock North (1874-1966). Concurrently with the closure of the S&DJR on 7 March 1966, a connection was ...
Somerset. 51°17′35″N 2°26′53″W / 51.293°N 2.448°W / 51.293; -2.448. Radstock is a town and civil parish on the northern slope of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, about 9 miles (14 km) south-west of Bath and 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Frome. It is within the area of the unitary authority of Bath and North East ...
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 ...
The Somerset Coalfield in northern Somerset, England is an area where coal was mined from the 15th century until 1973. It is part of a larger coalfield which stretched into southern Gloucestershire. The Somerset coalfield stretched from Cromhall in the north to the Mendip Hills in the south, and from Bath in the east to Nailsea in the west, a ...
England. Somerset. 51°17′24″N 2°26′53″W / 51.29°N 2.448°W / 51.29; -2.448. Westfield is a village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. The village lies on the Fosse Way between the towns of Radstock and Midsomer Norton. It is 11 miles (17.7 km) south-west of Bath ...
The rolling stock preserved on the West Somerset Railway is used to operate trains on the West Somerset Railway (WSR), a heritage railway in Somerset, England. There is a variety of preserved steam and diesel locomotives and diesel multiple units, passenger coaches and goods wagons. Most of these are typical of Great Western Railway (GWR ...
Sentinel Loco 7109 being restored at Midsomer Norton in November 2013. Neither of the Radstock Sentinels survived into preservation. However, a similar locomotive, former Croydon Gasworks No. 37 Joyce (works number 7109), originally built in 1927, is restored and running at the Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust at Midsomer Norton railway station.