page_title: Yeoveney Halt railway station
hierarchical_section_title: Yeoveney Halt railway station
caption_attribution_description: English: The Staines and West Drayton Railway was completed in 1885 and a halt was opened here in 1887 as Runnymede Range station to serve the nearby extensive rifle range to the west. It was renamed Yeoveney Halt railway station in 1935, but passenger traffic must have been sparse at best and the halt closed in 1962, three years before the line itself. Contrary to popular belief the site of the station was not lost under the M25 Motorway and its site is confirmed by the existence of many of the platform supporting concrete pillars scattered in the scrub to the west of the line, to the right in the photo here. The site of the Runnymede rifle range and Yeoveney Farm have been lost under the Wraysbury Reservoir. Also contrary to popular belief the currently planned route of the proposed new AirTrack railway link from London Heathrow to Staines would not use the wooded green corridor trackbed of the old railway.
context_page_description: Yeoveney Halt was a railway platform of a minimalist nature on the Staines & West Drayton Railway. It was opened in June 1887 as Runnymede Range Halt on a restricted basis, gaining a regular public service from 1 March 1892. It was renamed Runymede Halt on 9 July 1934, and again renamed Yeoveney Halt on 4 November 1935, to deter tourists who came seeking the place where Magna Carta was signed. It closed on 14 May 1962, before the 1965 closure of the branch.
  It comprised a short timber platform on the west side of the single track with no shelter. Bradshaw stated that passengers wishing to join the train had to give the driver the necessary hand signal. Those wishing to alight were to inform the guard at the previous station.
  Contrary to the general belief that the site of the station lies beneath the M25 motorway it can be identified by the remaining scattered concrete platform support pillars in the location shown on old Ordnance Survey maps.
  Pictures of the station are to be found in
  GWR Country Stations 2: C.Leigh 1984 Ian Allan ISBN 0-7110-1438-8
  London's Local Railways: A.A.Jackson 2nd Ed 1999 Capital Transport Publishing ISBN 978-1-85414-209-2
  Branch Lines of West London: V.
context_section_description: Yeoveney Halt was a railway platform of a minimalist nature on the Staines & West Drayton Railway (which became part of the Great Western Railway in 1900). It was opened in June 1887 as Runnymede Range Halt on a restricted basis (as a private facility for a nearby rifle range), gaining a regular public service from 1 March 1892. It was renamed Runymede Halt on 9 July 1934, and again renamed Yeoveney Halt on 4 November 1935, to deter tourists who came seeking the place where Magna Carta was signed (which was some distance away by road). It closed on 14 May 1962, before the 1965 closure of the branch.
  It comprised a short timber platform on the west side of the single track with no shelter. Bradshaw stated that passengers wishing to join the train had to give the driver the necessary (but unspecified) hand signal. Those wishing to alight were to inform the guard at the previous station.
  Contrary to the general belief that the site of the station lies beneath the M25 motorway it can be identified by the remaining scattered concrete platform support pillars in the location shown on old Ordnance Survey maps.
  Pictures of the station are to be found in
  GWR Country Stations 2:  C.Leigh 1984 Ian Allan  ISBN 0-7110-1438-8
  London's Local Railways:  A.A.Jackson 2nd Ed 1999 Capital Transport Publishing ISBN 978-1-85414-209-2
  Branch Lines of West London: V. Mitchell & K. Smith 2000 Middleton Press ISBN 978-1-901706-50-5
caption: Station site in 2010.
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