page_title: Chilcompton railway station
hierarchical_section_title: Chilcompton railway station
caption_attribution_description: English: Down S&amp;D express approaching Chilcompton. View northward, down onto the Somerset &amp; Dorset (Bath - Bournemouth) line just before the short tunnel a mile or so before Chilcompton Tunnel, on the gruelling eight miles of 1-in-50/60 up from Radstock to the Mendips summit at Masbury. This Summer Saturday express battling up the bank is the 07.00 from Cleethorpes to Bournemouth West, headed by LMS 2P 4-4-0 No. 40564 piloting SR Bulleid Light Pacific No. 34101 'Hartland'. These engines would have taken over at Bath (Green Park), the train having been hauled by a variety of LNE and LMS locomotives on its extraordinary journey via Lincoln (St Marks), Nottingham (Midland), Leicester (Midland) and Birmingham (New St.). (Before the War it left the S&amp;D at Templecombe and went to Sidmouth and Exmouth by the SR)! Who on earth would have travelled the whole way?!
context_page_description: Chilcompton railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway at Chilcompton in the county of Somerset in England and opened on 20 July 1874. Originally the station consisted of a single platform on the Down side with a station building and possibly also a siding. In 1876 a loop and second platform were opened on the Up side, controlled from a 16-lever signal-box on the Down platform, which also controlled access to the goods yard. The line to Binegar was doubled in 1885. In 1886 the line to Midsomer Norton and Radstock was doubled and a replacement 13 lever signal box provided just beyond the Binegar end of the Up platform. The station closed to goods in 1964 and the signal-box closed in 1965; passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed on 7 March 1966.
context_section_description: Chilcompton railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway at Chilcompton in the county of Somerset in England and opened on 20 July 1874. Originally the station consisted of a single platform on the Down side with a station building and possibly also a siding. In 1876 a loop and second platform were opened on the Up side, controlled from a 16-lever signal-box on the Down platform, which also controlled access to the goods yard. The line to Binegar was doubled in 1885. In 1886 the line to Midsomer Norton and Radstock was doubled and a replacement 13 lever signal box provided just beyond the Binegar end of the Up platform. The station closed to goods in 1964 and the signal-box closed in 1965; passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed on 7 March 1966.
caption: Down S&D express approaching Chilcompton in 1959
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