Radstock West railway station was a station on the

Bristol and North Somerset Railway The Bristol and North Somerset Railway was a railway line in the West of England that connected Bristol with Radstock, through Pensford and further into northern Somerset, to allow access to the Somerset Coalfield. The line ran almost due so ...

in the county of Bath and North East Somerset in England.

History

Opened as Radstock on 3 September 1873, the station was renamed ''Radstock West'' on 26 September 1949, and closed on 2 November 1959.D W Warnock and R G Parsons, ''The Bristol and North Somerset Railway since 1884'', Avon Anglia Productions, Bristol, 1979, It was located immediately to the southwest of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway's station, (1874-1966). Concurrently with the closure of the S&DJR on 7 March 1966, a connection was made to the S&DJR. This allowed trains on the former B&NSR to traverse a short spur through Radstock North to the Lower Writhlington, Braysdown and Writhlington collieries, to transport coal to Portishead power station. After the last coal from the Somerset Coalfield was extracted from Writhlington Colliery on 28 September 1973, the spur was dismantled.

References

{{reflist Disused railway stations in Bristol, Bath and South Gloucestershire Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1873 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959