Cole (for Bruton) railway station

Cole (for Bruton) railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Railway in South Somerset, serving the village of Cole, which is now virtually joined to the village of Pitcombe and the small town of Bruton.

Cole (for Bruton)
Location of station (1984)
General information
Location	Cole, South Somerset England
Grid reference	ST671334
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Dorset Central Railway
Pre-grouping	Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
Post-grouping	SR and LMSR Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
3 February 1862	Opened
7 March 1966	Closed^[1]

Cole was the station where the Dorset Central Railway line from Templecombe met the Somerset Central Railway line from Glastonbury and Street railway station in 1862. Later that year the two companies combined to form the Somerset and Dorset Railway.

Just north of the station the line crossed the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway although the two railways were not connected here.

The goods yard closed on 5 April 1965^[2] and Cole station was closed with the railway in the Beeching cuts in 1966.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Wincanton Line and station closed		Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway LSWR and Midland Railways		Evercreech Junction Line and station closed

References

1. Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 133. OCLC 931112387.
2. Somerset and Dorset then and now by Mac Hawkins page 138

• Somerset Railway Stations, by Mike Oakley (Dovecote Press, 2002)

External links

• Station on navigable O.S. map

51°05′56″N 2°28′16″W / 51.09895°N 2.47123°W / 51.09895; -2.47123