Glastonbury and Street railway station

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Glastonbury and Street
Location
Location	Glastonbury
Area	Mendip
Grid reference	ST491389
Operations
Pre-grouping	Somerset Central Railway
Post-grouping	SR and LMS Southern Region of British Railways
Platforms	2
History
28 August 1854	Opened (Glastonbury)
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-Z
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Glastonbury and Street railway station was the biggest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway main line from Highbridge to Evercreech Junction until closed in 1966 under the Beeching axe. It was the junction for the short branch line to Wells which closed in 1951.

Opened in 1854 as Glastonbury, and renamed in 1886, it had three platforms, two for Evercreech to Highbridge services and one for the branch service to Wells. The station had a large goods yard controlled from a signal box.^[1]

[edit] The site today

The site is now a timber yard for a local company. Replica level crossing gates have been placed at the entrance.^[2] The former railway station canopy is now used as a shelter in the market area car park in Glastonbury.^[3]

[edit] References

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
West Pennard Line and station closed		Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway LSWR & Midland Railways Highbridge Branch		Ashcott Line and station closed
Junction		Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway LSWR & Midland Railways Wells Branch		Polsham Line and station closed