Evercreech Junction railway station

Evercreech Junction
Derelict station in September 1972
Location
Place	Evercreech
Area	Mendip, Somerset
Grid reference	ST639366
Operations
Pre-grouping	Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
Post-grouping	LMS / Southern Railway Western Region of British Railways
Platforms	2
History
3 February 1862	Opened as "Evercreech"
20 July 1874	Renamed "Evercreech Junction"
29 November 1965	Closed to goods
7 March 1966	Closed to passengers
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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 northwards extension towards Bath that bankrupted the company. A station opened on the Bath extension more than a mile to the north of Evercreech Junction, much nearer to the village of Evercreech, was called Evercreech Village, and later Evercreech New.

Highbridge branch train in 1962

The junction itself was to the north of the station, where there were also marshalling yards. Branch trains to and from Burnham and Highbridge started and finished at Evercreech in latter years. To the south of the station a level crossing carried the main A371 road across the line.

The former Railway Hotel, renamed after closure

In 1963 the station featured in "Branch Line Railway", a BBC documentary on the Joint Railway presented by John Betjeman. However, it was closed three years later along with the whole line as part of the Beeching axe. The station inn was renamed as The Silent Whistle on the closure of the line.

Three years after closure

Today the residual station buildings are private homes, with the former station track bed forming their gardens. The former goods yard is a small industrial estate, while the station hotel was renamed again as The Natterjack in the 1970s.^[1]

References

1. Station remains

External links

• http://www.sdjr.net/locations/evercreech.html
• Station on navigable O.S. map
• Part one of "Branch Line Railway" on YouTube, showing the station as filmed in 1962.

Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway

Legend This diagram shows the maximum extent of the line. All distances and timings are cumulative from Bath Green Park railway station. River Avon Coal-Gas Works 0km Bath Green Park(Terminus/Interchange; formerly Queen Square) 0hours 0.40 Bath Goods Depot 0.82 MR(Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line to Mangotsfield and Bristol) 0.01 GWR(Great Western Main Line from Bristol to London) 0.02 Devonshire Tunnel 0.04 Combe Down Tunnel 0.05 Tucking Mill Viaduct 0.06 7.02 Midford(Not connected to B&NSR station at Midford) 0.10 GWR(Bristol and North Somerset Railway from Hallatrow to Limpley Stoke) 0.11 GWR(Bristol and North Somerset Railway from Bristol to Frome) 0.29 10.88 Wellow 0.17 13.80 Shoscombe and Single Hill Halt 0.22 Writhlington(Colliery sidings; formerly Foxcote) 0.23 17.14 Radstock North 0.26 GWR(Bristol and North Somerset Railway from Bristol to Frome) 0.29 20.16 Midsomer Norton South 0.35 Extension under reconstruction Chilcompton Tunnel 23.32 Chilcompton 0.44 27.46 Binegar 0.52 Summit(247m above sea level) 29.99 Masbury 0.56 Winsor Hill Tunnel 81.73 Burnham-on-Sea(Terminus) 2.16 GWR(Bristol and Exeter Railway to Bristol) 78.92 Highbridge Stations(Terminus after Burnham closed in 1951) 2.11 Highbridge Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Works 76.28 Bason Bridge 2.06 70.67 Edington Burtle 1.58 75.10 Cossington 2.04 77.37 Bawdrip Halt 2.09 67.17 Shapwick 1.52 64.09 Ashcott 1.47 Bridgwater Spinx Cement Works Bridgwater Cement, Lime, Brick and Tile Works 81.94 Bridgwater North(Terminus) 2.12 Bridgwater GWR station GWR(Bristol and Exeter Railway to Taunton) 59.75 Glastonbury and Street(Interchange) 1.39 64.57 Polsham 1.47 GWR(Cheddar Valley Line to Yatton) 68.60 Wells (Tucker Street) Shepton Mallet Viaduct 1.01 68.60 Wells (Priory Road)(Interchange) 1.53 35.16 Shepton Mallet (Charlton Road) 1.02 Shepton Mallet (High Street) 51.24 West Pennard 1.28 Cock Mill Crossing 45.79 Pylle 1.20 GWR(East Somerset Railway to Witham) 1.03 Prestleigh Viaduct 40.07 Evercreech New 1.10 42.04 1.15 42.52 Evercreech Junction(Interchange) 1.16 GWR(Heart of Wessex and Reading to Taunton lines) 1.23 46.99 Cole (for Bruton) 1.24 53.83 Wincanton 1.33 59.02 1.41 59.48 Templecombe Lower Platform 1.42 59.64 LSWR(West of England Main Line from Exeter to London) 1.43 Tower View Common Lane/Depot Gartell Light Railway Pinesway Junction Park Lane 62.52 Henstridge 1.50 Somerset/Dorset border 64.92 Stalbridge 1.55 71.31 Sturminster Newton 2.03 76.20 Shillingstone 2.10 Extension under reconstruction Stourpaine and Durweston Halt 2.16 84.99 Blandford Forum 2.24 Blandford Camp 86.90 Charlton Marshall Halt 2.29 89.42 Spetisbury 2.34 94.83 Bailey Gate 2.42 Southampton and Dorchester Railway(To Ringwood) 102.88 Wimborne(Interchange) 2.53 97.69 Corfe Mullen Halt 2.49 102.51 Broadstone(Interchange) 2.55 2.57 104.59 Creekmoor Halt 2.59 Hamworthy Junction LSWR(South Western Main Line to Weymouth) 3.02 Poole Lifting Bridge Poole to Hamworthy Ferry Poole Quay 108.03 Poole(Interchange) 3.03 Poole(Original station, now Hamworthy Goods Depot) Current Cross Channel Ferry Port 110.96 Parkstone 3.13 113.07 Branksome 3.18 Branksome Junction Bournemouth West Junction Gasworks Junction Bournemouth Depot 3.20 115.03 Bournemouth West(Terminus) 3.23 Bournemouth Central 3:24 (Terminus/Interchange after Bournemouth West closed in 1965) LSWR(South Western Main Line to London)

Coordinates: 51°07′38″N 2°31′00″W / 51.1272°N 2.5168°W