Shoscombe & Single Hill Halt was a small railway 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 ...

serving small villages between Wellow and

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, about seven miles south of

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. The station was the last to open on the Somerset and Dorset main line, with services beginning on 23 September 1929. It closed with the rest of the line on 7 March 1966 under the

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. The station, sited in the hamlet of Single Hill, consisted of two bare concrete platforms, with ornate oil lamps but without buildings. A small building containing a booking office and a waiting room was provided on the footpath leading to the station. Shoscombe and Single Hill Halt 2118355 4085a8d9

Shoscombe and Single Hill Halt 2118355 4085a8d9

References

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

External links

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 1929 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966 Beeching closures in England {{Somerset-struct-stub