Wellow 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 ...
at
Wellow in the county of
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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in
England
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. Opened on 20 July 1874, the station consisted of two platforms, a goods yard and sidings, controlled from an 18 lever
signal box
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The station closed to goods in 1963: passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed on 7 March 1966.
The site today
The station building was converted into a house by the artist
Peter Blake and his then wife
Jann Haworth
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, in the mid-1970s, during their
Brotherhood of Ruralists
The Brotherhood of Ruralists is a British art group founded in 1975 in Wellow, Somerset, to paint nature. Their work is figurative with a strong adherence to 'traditional' skills. Painting in oil and watercolour predominate, with mixed media asse ...
period. The signalbox at the northern end of the down platform has also been converted for residential use. The station's canopy is still visible from nearby green space where the rail track ran south of the station. The house sports a weather vane with a steam engine finial.
References
Further reading
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External links
Wellow station on SDJR website
Brotherhood of Ruralists
Disused railway stations in Somerset
Former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966
Beeching closures in England
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