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Disused Railway Stations (Bristol To Exeter Line)
There are 22 disused railway stations on the Bristol to Exeter line between and . The line was completed in 1844 at which time the temporary terminus at Beambridge was closed. The most recent closure was Tiverton Junction which was replaced by a new station} on a different site in 1986. 12 of the disused stations have structures that can still be seen from passing trains. Background The route was opened by the Bristol and Exeter Railway in stages between 1841 and 1844. In 1876 this company was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway which, in turn, was nationalised into British Railways in 1948. It is now owned by Network Rail. Apart from the temporary station at Beam Bridge which was only used for a year, the earliest closures were in the Weston-super-Mare area in order to provide new facilities for the traffic to that town, which was much greater than predicted when the line was planned. The majority of the remaining closures followed Dr Beeching's '' Reshaping of Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beambridge
Beambridge can refer to the following English places: * Beambridge, Shropshire * Beambridge, Cheshire, a village in Worleston Other meanings * Beam bridge, a type of bridge * Bembridge, a village of the Isle of Wight * Bembridge (surname) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Allan Publishing
Ian Allan Publishing was an English publisher, established in 1942, which specialised in transport books. It was founded by Ian Allan. In 1942, Ian Allan, then working in the public relations department for the Southern Railway at Waterloo station, decided he could deal with many of the requests he received about rolling stock by collecting the information into a book. The result was his first book, ''ABC of Southern Locomotives''. This proved to be a success, contributing to the emergence of trainspotting as a popular hobby in the UK, and leading to the formation of the company.Ian Allan…the man who launched a million locospotters '' The Railway Magazine'' issue 1174 February 1999 pages 20-27 The company grew from a small producer of books for train enthusiasts and spotters to a large transport publisher. Each year it published books covering subjects such as military and civil aviation, naval and maritime topics, buses, trams, trolleybuses and steam railways, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puxton
Puxton is a village and civil parish, north west of Axbridge in the unitary authority of North Somerset within the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. The civil parish includes the isolated hamlets of East Hewish and West Hewish. History The parish was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Puxton was part of the manor of Banwell held by the Bishop of Bath and Wells until the reign of Henry VI when it passed to the St Loe or De Sancto Laudo family who held it for over 100 years. Puxton Park, a family attraction with small animals, a falconry centre and farm shop, opened in 2007. The park gained some notability when it was revealed that they will not allow any single people to visit under the assumption that they are all paedophiles. Governance The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worle
Worle ( ) is a village in the civil parish of Weston-Super-Mare, in the North Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. It is joined to the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare on its western edge. It, however, maintains a very separate identity, and may now be bigger than its more famous neighbour. Worle pre-dates Weston and was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. In the book, it is said that Worle was owned by Walter of Douai, and consisted of and valued at 6.5 hides. "Walter of Douai holds of the King, Worle. Edgar held it in the time of King Edward, and gelded for six hides and a half." The parish church of St Martin's sits on the side of Worlebury Hill and overlooks the village. History The name was possibly formed from the Old English ''Wor + leah'' meaning 'wood or clearing frequented by grouse', or perhaps 'moor meadow'. The parish was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Worle has grown dramatically in the last 50 years. That initial developm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheddar Valley Line
The Cheddar Valley line was a railway line in Somerset, England, running between Yatton and Witham. It was opened in parts: the first section connecting Shepton Mallet to Witham, later extended to Wells, was built by the East Somerset Railway from 1858. Later the Bristol and Exeter Railway built their branch line from Yatton to Wells, but the two lines were prevented for a time from joining up. Eventually the gap was closed, and the line became a simple through line, operated by the Great Western Railway. The line became known as 'The Strawberry Line' because of the volume of locally grown strawberries that it carried. It closed in 1963. Sections of the former trackbed have been opened as the Strawberry Line railway walk, which runs from Yatton to Cheddar. The southern section operates as a heritage railway using the name East Somerset Railway. History Main line railways Important inland market towns suddenly found themselves at a huge disadvantage when trunk railways c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandford And Banwell Railway Station
Sandford and Banwell railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Sandford, Somerset, Sandford, Somerset, England. The station is a Grade II listed building. The station can be viewed from the Cheddar Valley line#Strawberry Line trail, Strawberry Line Trail, which runs adjacent to the site. History The station was opened as Sandford with the broad gauge line to Cheddar in August 1869 as a single-platform station. The railway was extended to Wells (Tucker Street) railway station, Wells in 1870, converted to standard gauge in the mid-1870s and then linked up to the East Somerset Railway to provide through services from Yatton railway station, Yatton to Witham (Somerset) railway station, Witham in 1878. All the railways involved were absorbed into the Great Western Railway in the 1870s. The Yatton to Witham line closed to passengers in September 1963 and Yatton-Cheddar closed to goods in October 1964. Sandford and Banwell station was use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banwell
Banwell is a village and civil parish on the River Banwell in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. Its population was 3,251 according to the 2021 census. Toponymy Banwell's name is first securely attested around the year 900 in forms including ''Banuwille'' and ''Bananwylle''; it appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 in the form ''Banwelle''. This name was taken by Margaret Gelling and Victor Watts as an Old English compound of ''bana'' 'slayer' (in its genitive singular form ''banan'') and ''wielle'' 'well, fountain, spring', thus meaning something like 'murderer's stream'. However, Harry Jelley suggested in the 1990s that Banwell was the home of St Patrick's father, who according to Patrick’s autobiographical ''Confessio'' 'fuit vico Bannavem Taburniae, villulam enim prope habuit, ubi ego capturam dedi' ('lived at Bannavem Taburniae, because he had a small estate nearby, where I was taken prisoner'). Jelley argued that ''Bannavem Taburniae'' is a scribal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSM St Georges LC Signalbox
WSM may refer to: *102.7 WSM, former name of DWSM (now Star FM) *WSM, international airport code for Wisman Aviation *WSM (AM), a radio station (650 AM) licensed to Nashville, Tennessee, United States *WSM-FM, a radio station (95.5 FM) licensed to Nashville, Tennessee, United States *WSMV-TV, Nashville, Tennessee, US television station, former callsign WSM-TV *Warner Strategic Marketing, part of the Warner Music Group *Web-based System Manager, IBM management software *Weekly Shōnen Magazine, a Japanese manga magazine *Weighted sum model, for decision analysis *Weston-super-Mare railway station, England, station code *Winchester Short Magnum, a family of rifle cartridges *Workers Solidarity Movement, Ireland *World Socialist Movement *World's Strongest Man competition *Samoa ISO 3166-1 country code * WSM Music Group Ltd., Hong Kong *W. Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railfuture
Railfuture (formerly the Railway Development Society) is a UK advocacy group which promotes better rail services for passengers and freight across a bigger rail network. The group's national policies are determined by its national board of directors (one-third elected by the membership every year, for a three-year term) and its national AGM. The group's campaigns are pursued nationally by three policy groups (Passenger, Infrastructure & Networks, Freight) and locally through regional branches (12 in England, plus one each in Wales and Scotland). Its honorary president is Christian Wolmar, a transport writer and broadcaster. Its vice-presidents include former rail industry leaders Adrian Shooter CBE, Ian Brown CBE, Chris Green, and Stewart Palmer, and leading commentators such as Roger Ford of ''Modern Railways'', fellow columnist Alan Williams, and Paul Abell, a former editor of Today's Railways UK. Railfuture's opinions and campaigns receive coverage in the UK press, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol Airport
Bristol Airport , at Lulsgate Bottom, on the northern slopes of the Mendip Hills, in North Somerset, is an international airport serving the city of Bristol, England, and the surrounding area. It is southwest of Bristol city centre. Built on the site of a former RAF airfield, it opened in 1957 as Bristol (Lulsgate) Airport, replacing Bristol (Whitchurch) Airport as Bristol's municipal airport. From 1997 to 2010, it was known as Bristol International Airport. In 1997, a majority shareholding in the airport was sold to FirstGroup, and then in 2001 the airport was sold to a joint venture of Macquarie Bank and others. In September 2014, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan bought out Macquarie to become the sole owner. In 2019, it was ranked the eighth busiest airport (overtaking Glasgow Airport from the previous year) in the United Kingdom, handling over 8.9 million passengers, a 3% increase compared with 2018. A passenger survey carried out in 2015 found that 32.5% of journeys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friends Of Suburban Bristol Railways
Bristol Rail Campaign (formerly FoSBR, Friends of Bristol Suburban Railways) is a Bristol-based campaign group, calling for better rail transport in the Bristol area. Formation Bristol Rail Campaign was formed in 1995 as ''Friends of Severn Beach Railway'', to protest against the potential demise of the Severn Beach Line, a single-track branch line in Bristol. Services at the time had been reduced along the line from to , with many services replaced by buses. The first FoSBR action was on 25 September 1995, when a group of protestors met at Avonmouth railway station with buggies and bicycles, to show that buses were not a suitable replacement for trains. The group later changed its name to Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways, allowing it to keep the FoSBR acronym. FoSBR changed its campaign name to Bristol Rail Campaign in 2023, stating: "We have found that people find it confusing, don’t get it right and don’t remember it. We need a simple name that says clearly what w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Fuel And Power
The Ministry of Power was a United Kingdom government ministry dealing with issues concerning energy. The Ministry of Power (then named Ministry of Fuel and Power) was created on 11 June 1942 from functions separated from the Board of Trade. It took charge of coal production, allocation of fuel supplies, control of energy prices and petrol rationing. These had previously been dealt with by the Secretary for Mines and in the case of petroleum since 1940 by the Secretary for Petroleum. The Petroleum Board, responsible for the coordination of the war-time petroleum 'pool' for oil supplies (except oil for the Royal Navy), continued in this role until the Board was dissolved in 1948. It also took over responsibility for electricity from the Ministry of War Transport and its predecessor the Ministry of Transport. The Ministry of Fuel and Power was renamed the Ministry of Power in January 1957. The Ministry of Power later became part of the Ministry of Technology on 6 Octobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
