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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 ...
Colin Gordon Maggs (born 1932) [1] is a railway historian and the author of more than 100 books about British railways, particularly those in the southwest of England.He has also written many newspaper and magazine articles about them and made several TV appearances and radio broadcasts on the subject.
An adjacent building on the platform is home to the Taunton Model Railway Group’s model railway layout. The original station offices with modern toilets are now used by the West Somerset Railway Association. [2] The eastern-side 1906-built platform, No.2, is today the station's main operating platform.
The West Somerset Mineral Railway was a standard gauge line in Somerset, England. [2] Originally expected to be 13 miles 420 yards (21.3 km) long [ 3 ] its length as built was 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (18.5 km), [ 1 ] with a 310-yard (280 m) branch to Raleigh's Cross Mine .
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]
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Williton railway station in Williton, Somerset, England, was opened by the West Somerset Railway in 1862 and closed by British Rail in 1971. It was reopened in 1976 as a heritage line . The locomotive workshops here are the headquarters of the Diesel and Electric Preservation Group (DEPG).
The station opened on 31 March 1862 when the West Somerset Railway (WSR) opened from Norton Junction (later Norton Fitzwarren), serving as the WSR's original line terminus. Watchet was chosen as the WSR line's terminus, as it had been since the Middle Ages an important regional port on the Bristol Channel .