Bason Bridge railway station

Bason Bridge
Bason Bridge railway station in 1963
Location	near East Huntspill, Sedgemoor England
Grid reference	ST345458
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Somerset Central Railway
Post-grouping	SR and LMS Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
July 1856	Opened
10 June 1963	Closed to goods traffic
7 March 1966	Closed to passengers
2 October 1972	Closed to milk traffic

Bason Bridge railway station was a station on the Highbridge branch of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, serving the village of East Huntspill.

Opened by the Somerset Central Railway in 1856, the station consisted of a wooden platform and buildings. A level crossing, goods yard and dedicated siding for milk train to the Wiltshire United Co-operative Society's creamery, were operated from two lever frames, one at each end of the station.

The station closed with the SDJR on 7 March 1966, although access to the dairy was maintained via a spur from Highbridge. In the months before closure, goods trains loaded with fly ash tipped at the construction site of the M5 motorway to enable it to progress across the Somerset Levels. Progress on construction of the motorway finally closed the spur line on 3 October 1972. The station site was later cleared, but the station house survived as a private house.^[1]

The roof of the station house caught fire 10 April 2020 and the property was subsequently demolished.^[2]

References

• R.V.J. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070518103011/http://www.sdjr.net/locations/bason_bridge.html
• Station on navigable O.S. map