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Monkton Combe Halt railway station was a railway station in Monkton Combe, Somerset, England. It was built by the Great Western Railway in 1910, on the Camerton branch of the Bristol and North Somerset Railway line.
Many people had lost a lot of money, but the area still needed a railway line, and a new Bristol and North Somerset Railway was created, authorised by an act of Parliament, the Bristol and North Somerset Railway Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. clxxviii) of 31 July 1868. The engineer was William Clarke and his first task was to assess what physical ...
Dundas Aqueduct (grid reference) is an aqueduct in England which carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the River Avon (the Somerset / Wiltshire border) and the Wessex Main Line railway. The aqueduct is near Monkton Combe, Somerset, and is about 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4 km) south-east of the city of Bath.
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.
It was constructed as part of the extension of the original Bristol and North Somerset Railway Camerton branch line, carried out by the Great Western Railway between 1906 and 1910. This created a new railway which ran eastwards from the former terminus at Camerton through Dunkerton, Combe Hay, Midford and Monkton Combe before connecting to the ...
Combe railway station serves the village of Combe in Oxfordshire, England. It is on the Cotswold Line. 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]
Built between 1797 and 1801, the Dundas Aqueduct carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the River Avon and the Wessex Main Line railway. It is 150 yards (137.2 m) long with three arches built of Bath Stone , with Doric pilasters, and balustrades at each end.
The Somerset Coal Canal (originally known as the Somersetshire Coal Canal) was a narrow canal in England, built around 1800.Its route began in basins at Paulton and Timsbury, ran to nearby Camerton, over two aqueducts at Dunkerton, through a tunnel at Combe Hay, then via Midford and Monkton Combe to Limpley Stoke where it joined the Kennet and Avon Canal.