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Binegar railway station was a station on the
The site is now occupied by a large private house.
Station on navigable O.S. map
{{DEFAULTSORT:Binegar Railway Station Disused railway stations in Somerset Former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966 Beeching closures in England Mendip District
Binegar railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, also known as the S&D, SDJR or S&DJR, was an English railway line connecting Bath (in north-east Somerset) and Bournemouth (now in south-east Dorset but then in Hampshire), with a branch from Evercreec ...
in the county of Somerset
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. Opened on 20 July 1874, the station consisted of two platforms, with a building on the down platform. There was a substantial goods yard with two sheds and sidings, controlled from a 24 lever signal box
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. Being the first station north of the line's summit at Masbury Binegar was also where locomotives used as banking engines on north-bound trains would drop off and cross the line ready to return south.
The station closed to goods in 1963: passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed on 7 March 1966.
Accident
There were several fatalities in two accidents near this station in the 1880The site today
The site is now occupied by a large private house.
Further reading
*References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070518103018/http://www.sdjr.net/locations/binegar.htmlStation on navigable O.S. map
{{DEFAULTSORT:Binegar Railway Station Disused railway stations in Somerset Former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966 Beeching closures in England Mendip District