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Yeoveney Halt was a railway platform of a minimalist nature on the Staines & West Drayton Railway (which became part of the 
It comprised a short timber platform on the west side of the single track with no shelter. Bradshaw stated that passengers wishing to join the train had to give the driver the necessary (but unspecified) hand signal. Those wishing to alight were to inform the guard at the previous station.
Contrary to the general belief that the site of the station lies beneath the M25 motorway it can be identified by the remaining scattered concrete platform support pillars in the location shown on old Ordnance Survey maps.
Pictures of the station are to be found in
* ''GWR Country Stations 2'': C.Leigh 1984 Ian Allan
* ''London's Local Railways'': A.A.Jackson 2nd Ed 1999 Capital Transport Publishing
* ''Branch Lines of West London'': V. Mitchell & K. Smith 2000 Middleton Press
Yeoveney Halt on navigable O.S. map
Disused railway stations in Surrey Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1887 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1962 Borough of Spelthorne {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
in 1900). It was opened in June 1887 as ''Runnymede Range Halt'' on a restricted basis (as a private facility for a nearby rifle range), gaining a regular public service from 1 March 1892. It was renamed ''Runymede Halt'' on 9 July 1934, and again renamed ''Yeoveney Halt'' on 4 November 1935, to deter tourists who came seeking the place where Magna Carta
(Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called (also ''Magna Charta''; "Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by the ...
was signed (which was some distance away by road). It closed on 14 May 1962, before the 1965 closure of the branch.
It comprised a short timber platform on the west side of the single track with no shelter. Bradshaw stated that passengers wishing to join the train had to give the driver the necessary (but unspecified) hand signal. Those wishing to alight were to inform the guard at the previous station.
Contrary to the general belief that the site of the station lies beneath the M25 motorway it can be identified by the remaining scattered concrete platform support pillars in the location shown on old Ordnance Survey maps.
Pictures of the station are to be found in
* ''GWR Country Stations 2'': C.Leigh 1984 Ian Allan
* ''London's Local Railways'': A.A.Jackson 2nd Ed 1999 Capital Transport Publishing
* ''Branch Lines of West London'': V. Mitchell & K. Smith 2000 Middleton Press
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Yeoveney Halt on navigable O.S. map
Disused railway stations in Surrey Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1887 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1962 Borough of Spelthorne {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub