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Glastonbury and Street railway station was the biggest station on the original
The site is now used by a timber merchant and for storage. Replica level crossing gates have been placed at the entrance.
The former railway station canopy is now used as a shelter in the market area car park in Glastonbury. Glastonbury Conservation Society
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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 ...
main line from Highbridge to Evercreech Junction
Evercreech Junction was a railway station at Evercreech on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.
Originally opened in 1862 as "Evercreech" on the original S&D line from Burnham-on-Sea to Broadstone, it became in 1874 the junction for the north ...
until closed in 1966 under the Beeching axe
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. It was the junction for the short branch line to Wells
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which closed in 1951.
Opened in 1854 as Glastonbury, and renamed in 1886, it had three platforms, two for Evercreech to Highbridge services and one for the branch service to Wells. The station had a large goods yard controlled from a signal box
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Services
The site today
The site is now used by a timber merchant and for storage. Replica level crossing gates have been placed at the entrance.
The former railway station canopy is now used as a shelter in the market area car park in Glastonbury.References
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Disused railway stations in Somerset Former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1854 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966 Beeching closures in England Glastonbury Buildings and structures in Mendip District {{SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub