Edington Burtle 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 ...

, and served the village of

Edington, Somerset Edington is a rural village, situated on the north side of the Polden Hills in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England. Either side of it lie the villages of Chilton Polden and Catcott, and north of it is the small village of Burtle. Ther ...

, UK. Originally named Edington Road, with the village two miles away, it became in 1890 the junction for the

Bridgwater Bridgwater is a large historic market town and civil parish in Somerset, England. Its population currently stands at around 41,276 as of 2022. Bridgwater is at the edge of the Somerset Levels, in level and well-wooded country. The town lies alon ...

branch off the Highbridge line and for the next period in its life was known as Edington Junction. After the Bridgwater line closed to passengers in 1952, the station was renamed as Edington Burtle –

Burtle Burtle is a village and civil parish on the Somerset Levels in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England. History Burtle Priory (also known as Burtle Moor Priory) originated as a hermitage on a site called Sprauellissmede, endowed by William ...

is a village to the north of the station, and somewhat closer than Edington. In February 1956 the down platform and signal box was closed. Goods Yard closed on 13 July 1964.The Somerset & Dorset Then and Now by Mac Hawkins page 191 It closed in March 1966 when the line was shut as part of the

Beeching axe The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Development of the ...

References

* ''Somerset Railway Stations'', by Mike Oakley. Dovecote Press, 2002.

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Station on navigable O.S. map
Disused railway stations in Somerset Former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966 Beeching closures in England {{SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub