The station was opened with the broad gauge line to Cheddar on 3 August 1869 as a single-platform station.[1] The railway was extended to Wells in 1870, converted to standard gauge in the mid-1870s and then linked up to the East Somerset Railway to provide through services from Yatton to Witham in 1878.
Congresbury was remodelled as a two-platform station when the Wrington Vale line opened in 1901; with a few exceptions, though, trains on both lines started at Yatton, the junction with the main Bristol and Exeter line.
The station was host to a GWRcamp coach from 1936 to 1939.[2] A camping coach was also positioned here by the Western Region from 1952 to 1962.[3]
The Wrington line shut to passenger traffic on 14 September 1931.[4] The Yatton to Witham line closed to passengers on 9 September 1963.[1] Congresbury remained opened for goods traffic for a few further months, closing on 1 October 1964.[5] The station was later demolished, though traces of the platforms can be seen on the Strawberry Line Trail.
^ abQuick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology(PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 141.
^McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 31. ISBN1-870119-48-7.
^McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. pp. 94–95. ISBN1-870119-53-3.
^St John Thomas, David (1966). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. I: The West Country (3rd ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. p. 23.
^Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. p. 30 (ref 1452). ISBN0-9477-9618-5.
Further reading
Somerset Railway Stations by Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 2002.
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