Keinton Mandeville railway station

Keinton Mandeville
Location
Place Keinton Mandeville
Area South Somerset
Operations
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Platforms 2
History
1 July 1905 Opened
10 September 1962 Closed
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Keinton Mandeville railway station was a small railway station situated on the Great Western Railway's Langport and Castle Cary Railway. It served the medium-sized village of Keinton Mandeville in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England.

The station opened on 1 July 1905, at the same time as Castle Cary and Charlton Mackrell. This was because the three stations were used collectively as a temporary before the railway opened officially as a whole the following year.[1]

Before its closure in 1962,[2] the station had two platforms and there was a station building, as well as a small goods yard, behind the east platform.[3]

No sign of the station now remains; however the line itself is still in use as part of the Reading to Taunton Line.

Services

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Charlton Mackrell   Langport and Castle Cary Railway
(Great Western Railway)
  Alford Halt

References

  1. Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations - Details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present. Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 129. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
  2. Oakley, Mike (2011). Somerset Railway Stations: Then and Now. Dovecote Press.
  3. Oakley, Mike (2006). Somerset Railway Stations. Redcliffe Press.
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