Binegar railway station

Binegar

Binegar railway station in 1967
Location
Place Binegar
Area Mendip
Grid reference ST616492
Operations
Pre-grouping Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
Post-grouping SR and LMSR
Western Region of British Railways
Platforms 2
History
20 July 1874 Opened
7 March 1966 Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Binegar Station in 1963

Binegar railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway in the county of Somerset in England. Opened on 20 July 1874, the station consisted of two platforms, with a building on the down platform. There was a substantial goods yard with two sheds and sidings, controlled from a 24 lever signal box. Being the first station north of the line's summit at Masbury Binegar was also where locomotives used as banking engines on north-bound trains would drop off and cross the line ready to return south.

The station closed to goods in 1963: passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed on 7 March 1966.

Accident

There were several fatalities in two accidents near this station in the 1880s.

The Site Today

Three years after the line closed

The site is now occupied by a large private house.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Masbury
Line and station closed
  Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway
LSWR and Midland Railways
  Chilcompton
Line and station closed

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Coordinates: 51°14′26″N 2°33′05″W / 51.24068°N 2.55146°W / 51.24068; -2.55146

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