Grid reference SO561157 4 August 1873 Opened | Platforms in use 2 | |
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Similar Bacton railway station, Ballingham railway station, Holme Lacy railway st, Almeley railway station, Abbeydore railway station | ||
Symonds Yat railway station is a disused railway station on the Ross and Monmouth Railway constructed on the banks of the River Wye in Symonds Yat East.
History
Opened in 1873, it consisted of two platforms and a timber station building on the down platform, it closed in 1959 with the closure of the line. The railways were at first used as a quick means of bringing the boats back from Chepstow.
In the 1950s there was a 'camping coach' at the station; an early form of self-catering accommodation which used converted redundant railway carriages for occupation by holiday makers who could arrive and depart by train. Today the station site has long been leveled but the foundations of the station building and platforms remain and the area now forms a car parking area for a local hotel inn.