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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Shoscombe And Single Hill Halt

Shoscombe & Single Hill Halt was a small railway station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway serving small villages between Wellow and Radstock, about seven miles south of Bath.

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 Beeching Axe.

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.

Somerset & Dorset train in 1959
Southbound Pines Express passing Shoscombe & Single Hill Halt in 1959

References

  1. ^ Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 388. OCLC 931112387.
  2. ^ "Shoscombe and Single Hill Halt". Somerset and Dorset Railway. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
  • Somerset Railway Stations, by Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, 2002.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Radstock North
Line and station closed
  Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway
SR and LMSRs
  Wellow
Line and station closed

51°18′N 2°24′W / 51.300°N 2.400°W / 51.300; -2.400