Cole (for Bruton) railway station

Cole (for Bruton)
Location of station (1984)
Location
Place	Cole
Area	South Somerset
Grid reference	ST671334
Operations
Pre-grouping	Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
Post-grouping	SR and LMSR Western Region of British Railways
Platforms	2
History
3 February 1862	Opened
7 March 1966	Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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Cole (for Bruton) railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Railway in South Somerset, serving the village of Cole, which is now virtually joined to the village of Pitcombe and the small town of Bruton.

Cole was the station where the Dorset Central Railway line from Templecombe met the Somerset Central Railway line from Glastonbury and Street railway station in 1862. Later that year the two companies combined to form the Somerset and Dorset Railway.

Just north of the station the line crossed the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway although the two railways were not connected here.

Cole station was closed with the railway in the Beeching cuts in 1966.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Wincanton Line and station closed		Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway LSWR and Midland Railways		Evercreech Junction Line and station closed

References

• Somerset Railway Stations, by Mike Oakley (Dovecote Press, 2002)

External links

• Station on navigable O.S. map

Coordinates: 51°05′56″N 2°28′16″W / 51.09895°N 2.47123°W