Shapwick station was a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...
on the Highbridge branch of 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 Evercreech ...
. Opened by the Somerset Central Railway in 1854, the station consisted of a goods yard, a
passing loop
A passing loop (UK usage) or passing siding (North America) (also called a crossing loop, crossing place, refuge loop or, colloquially, a hole) is a place on a single line railway or tramway, often located at or near a station, where trains or ...
with two platforms, and a wooden station building which burned down and was replaced in 1900.
The passing-loop and a level crossing were operated from a 17-lever
signal box, which was opened in 1901 to replace one destroyed in the 1900 fire.
The station was two and a half miles from the village of
Shapwick and appeared in some early timetables as "Shapwick Road", though this does not seem to have ever been an official name.
The station was closed, with the rest of the branch, on 7 March 1966.
The line and station were held in fond regard by
John Betjeman who in 1963 featured them in a
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programme, ''Let's Imagine: a Branch Line Railway,'' in which Betjeman travels from