Blue Anchor railway station

Infobox UK station


name=Blue Anchor
manager=West Somerset Railway
code =
locale=Blue Anchor
borough=West Somerset, Somerset
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platforms=2

Blue Anchor railway station is a station on the West Somerset Railway, a heritage railway in Somerset, England. It is situated in the seaside village of Blue Anchor and houses the museum of the West Somerset Steam Railway Trust.

The station is situated on a passing loop on the single track line and has two platforms. The station was opened in 1874 with only one platform, but the second platform was built by the Great Western Railway in 1904 together with the passing-loop and replacement brick signal-box, still in use today. The station was designed purely for excursionists and was cheaply built which explains why it does not look like those at either Washford, Dunster or Minehead. This is most notable in the odd shape of the ladies room, because it follows the boundary of the site.

The goods yard was opened in 1913 but traffic levels were never high. In 1934, as part of general upgrading of the Minehead branch, the platforms and passing loop were extended. A camp coach was stabled here from the summer of 1934. [Coleby, Ian (2006), "The Minehead Branch" [http://www.lightmoor.co.uk/ The Lightmoor Press] ]

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References

External links

* [http://www.wssrt.co.uk/ West Somerset Steam Railway Trust web site]
* [http://www.wsr.org.uk/ba.htm Blue Anchor Station on www.wsr.org.uk]
* [http://www.kilpin.org.uk/gallery2/main.php/v/WSR/ Photographs from the West Somerset Railway taken by Robert Kilpin]