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Crewkerne railway station is located in Misterton in
The station was opened on 19 July 1860 when the LSWR opened its Yeovil and Exeter Railway. The main building was designed by Sir 
A new signal box was built in 1960 a little to the east of the old one, which was then demolished, located between the old goods shed and the platforms.
In January 1963 all the lines in the area transferred to the Western Region and on 7 May 1967 the main line was rationalised. The section between
The station is managed by South Western Railway who operate an hourly service throughout most of the week between and
Somerset
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, England, and serves the area around the town of Crewkerne
Crewkerne ( ) is a town and electoral ward in Somerset, England, southwest of Yeovil and east of Chard all in the South Somerset district. The civil parish of West Crewkerne includes the hamlets of Coombe, Woolminstone and Henley – and b ...
. It is from on the West of England Main Line
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to Exeter
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. The main building is listed Grade II and is surrounded by several other old railway buildings.
History
The station was opened on 19 July 1860 when the LSWR opened its Yeovil and Exeter Railway. The main building was designed by Sir William Tite
Sir William Tite (7 February 179820 April 1873) was an English architect who twice served as President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He was particularly associated with various London buildings, with railway stations and cemetery ...
and has been designated as a Grade II listed building
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. The office (converted to a cafe in late-2013) by the main road was used to operate the weighbridge
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. When it opened, a goods shed was built, now the site of a builder's yard. It can still be seen from the railway line today. A wooden signal box
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was erected in 1875 on the eastbound platform, just east of the main offices.
In 1923 the LSWR became part of the Southern Railway following the Railways Act 1921
The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, by "grouping" them into four la ...
, and on 1 January 1948 the Southern Railway was itself nationalised
Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to pri ...
to become the Southern Region of British Railways
The Southern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948 until 1992 when railways were re-privatised. The region ceased to be an operating unit in its own right in the 1980s. The region covered south London, southern England and the sout ...
. A new signal box was built in 1960 a little to the east of the old one, which was then demolished, located between the old goods shed and the platforms.
In January 1963 all the lines in the area transferred to the Western Region and on 7 May 1967 the main line was rationalised. The section between Sherborne
Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The parish includes the hamlets of Nether Coombe and Lower Clatcombe. T ...
and was reduced to just a single track, although this has since been shortened to just between and Chard Junction, where there is a loop, followed by more single track to east of Axminster.
Accidents and incidents
On 24 April 1953 it was the scene of an accident when an axle of Merchant Navy Class 35020 ''Bibby Line'' broke while it was passing the station. This caused the platform canopy to be demolished.Location
The station is about a mile southeast of Crewkerne on theA356 road
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, which crosses the platform
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and railway on a bridge. The entrance and platform are on the north side of the line, which is climbing westwards at 1 in 80 (1.25%) to the Crewkerne Tunnel.
Services
The station is managed by South Western Railway who operate an hourly service throughout most of the week between and London Waterloo station
Waterloo station (), also known as London Waterloo, is a London station group, central London terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, in the Waterloo, London, Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth. It is connecte ...
.
See also
*Southern Railway routes west of Salisbury
This article describes the history and operation of the railway routes west of Salisbury built by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) and allied companies, which ultimately became part of the Southern Railway in the United Kingdom. Salisb ...
References
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