page_title: Burnham-on-Sea railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Burnham-on-Sea railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Burnham-on-Sea Station and Loco Shed. View southward, towards Highbridge and Evercreech Junction; ex-Midland &amp; London &amp; South Western (Somerset &amp; Dorset) Joint, terminus of branch from Highbridge and Evercreech Jct. This station was close to regular passenger trains 29/10/51, although saw trains at holiday times aftewards, also goods until complete closure on 20/5/63. Ex-GW 22XX class 0-6-0's, such as 2204 seen here, had worked on the line only recently.
context_page_description: Burnham-on-Sea railway station located within the town of Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, was the terminus of the Burnham branch of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. Opened as Burnham by the Somerset Central Railway on 3 May 1858, it was renamed in 1920.
context_section_description: The station, situated behind Abingdon Street, was a terminus although a through platform allowed services to travel on to a 900 feet (270 m) S&DJR built stone pier on the River Severn/River Parrett estuary. For a few years the railway operated steamers across the Bristol Channel to Wales. Railway operations onto the pier ceased in 1888 although the pier continued in use for vessels until the 1950s.
  Perhaps the strangest use of the railway along the pier was by the local area lifeboat, which was pushed on rails from the old lifeboat station (located behind the former Morrisons supermarket) and onto the "main line", across the esplanade, and down the pier where the lifeboat could be launched if the tide was right.
  Burnham-on-Sea closed when regular passenger services were curtailed at Highbridge on 28 October 1951. Excursion traffic continued until 1962, and the goods depot remained open until 1963.
  The nearest station to Burnham is now the former joint-GWR junction station known as Highbridge and Burnham.
caption: The station in 1962
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