Templecombe railway station serves the village of Templecombe in Somerset, England. It is situated on the West of England Main Line, 112 miles 2 chains down the line from London Waterloo. The main sta
The old 1938 signal box and waiting room in December 2015
The old railway goods shed at Templecombe station in February 2010
The "new" footbridge which was used from 1983 to 2012 to reach the reopened platform, photo taken in February 2010
The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, was an English railway line jointly owned by the Midland Railway and the London and South Western Railway that grew to connect Bath and Bournemouth, with a branc
Templecombe railway station
…station) to Sherborne. The S&YR never operated any trains, which were provided by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR). On 3 February 1862, the Dorset Central Railway opened its own Templecombe Lower station as the terminus of a line which connected with the Somerset Central Railway's line from Burnham-on-Sea; on 31…
The procession celebrating the opening of the Somerset Central Railway
Disused signal box at Wellow, now privately owned
Northbound Somerset & Dorset train climbing up from Shepton Mallet at Windsor Hill in 1959
View northward at Masbury Summit in 1959