Highbridge and Burnham railway station
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| Place | Highbridge | ||
| Local authority | Sedgemoor | ||
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| Managed by | First Great Western | ||
| Platforms in use | 2 | ||
| Annual Passenger Usage | |||
| 2004/05 ** | 0.107 million | ||
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Highbridge and Burnham railway station serves the towns of Highbridge and Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, England. The station is operated by First Great Western and is served by their local services (formerly Wessex Trains) and a small number of express services to and from London. Arriva Trains Wales ceased serving the station with the commencement of the 2005 Winter Timetable on 11 December 2005.
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[edit] Facilities
The station has two platforms:
The station is staffed between 10am and midday on mondays only where a small ticket machine has been installed on platform 2. Passengers must purchase tickets on board trains at all other times.
[edit] History
The present Highbridge station was linked for more than 100 years to a second station that lay to the east of the Great Western main line and served the Somerset Central Railway, which later became the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. This second Highbridge station was a larger affair, with two terminus platforms and two platforms on a through line that led on to the original line's terminus at Burnham-on-Sea. This through-line crossed the Great Western main line on the level just outside the present Highbridge and Burnham station.
Highbridge was not only an important station on the S&DJR: it was also the site of the company's locomotive works, which closed in 1930, and a small loco shed that remained open until the line and station finally shut in 1966. Regular through trains to Burnham ceased in 1951, though the line remained open for occasional summer special trains until 1962.
After railway nationalisation, the S&DJR station was known in the timetables as Highbridge East. There are remains of a footbridge that linked the two stations, but otherwise no trace of the larger station or the loco shed and works now remains.
[edit] References
- Somerset Railway Stations, by Mike Oakley (Dovecote Press, 2002)
- Passengers No More, by Gerald Daniels and L A Dench (Ian Allan, 2nd ed, 1974)
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Highbridge and Burnham railway station from National Rail
- Street map and aerial photo of Highbridge and Burnham railway station from Multimap.com
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| Weston-super-Mare | First Great Western Bristol-Taunton line |
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| Bristol-Taunton line / Great Western Main Line |
Taunton • Bridgwater • Highbridge and Burnham • Weston-super-Mare • Weston Milton • Worle • Yatton • Nailsea and Backwell • Parson Street • Bedminster • Bristol Temple Meads • Keynsham • Oldfield Park • Bath Spa |
| Wessex Main Line: | Bristol Temple Meads • Keynsham • Oldfield Park • Bath Spa • Freshford • Avoncliff • Bradford on Avon • Trowbridge |
| Severn Beach Line | Bristol Temple Meads • Lawrence Hill • Stapleton Road • Montpelier • Redland • Clifton Down • Sea Mills • Shirehampton • Avonmouth • St Andrews Road • Severn Beach |
| Bristol to Cardiff | Bristol Temple Meads • Lawrence Hill • Stapleton Road • Filton Abbey Wood • Bristol Parkway • Patchway • Pilning • Severn Tunnel Junction • Newport • Cardiff Central |
| Bristol to Cheltenham | Bristol Temple Meads • Lawrence Hill • Stapleton Road • Filton Abbey Wood • Bristol Parkway • Yate • Cam and Dursley • Gloucester • Cheltenham Spa |
