Place Binegar Grid reference ST616492 Platforms in use 2 | Area Mendip 20 July 1874 Opened | |
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Pre-grouping Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway Post-grouping SR and LMSR
Western Region of British Railways Similar Masbury railway station, Evercreech New railway st, Evercreech Junction railway st, Bath Green Park railway st, Coronation Chair | ||
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.
Contents
The station closed to goods in 1963: passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed on 7 March 1966.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.[1]
The site today
The site is now occupied by a large private house.