Wellow (Somerset) railway station

Wellow
Wellow station, in private residential use, September 2007
General information
Location	Wellow, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset England
Grid reference	ST739581
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Somerset and Dorset Railway
Post-grouping	SR and LMSR Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
20 July 1874	Station opened
7 March 1966	Station closed

Wellow railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway at Wellow in the county of Somerset in England. Opened on 20 July 1874, the station consisted of two platforms, a goods yard and sidings, controlled from an 18 lever signal box.

The station closed to goods in 1963: passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed on 7 March 1966.

The site today

The station building was converted into a house by the artist Peter Blake and his then wife Jann Haworth, in the mid-1970s, during their Brotherhood of Ruralists period. The signalbox at the northern end of the down platform has also been converted for residential use. The station's canopy is still visible from nearby green space where the rail track ran south of the station. The house sports a weather vane with a steam engine finial.

References

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Shoscombe and Single Hill Halt Line and station closed		Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway LSWR and Midland Railways		Midford Line and station closed

Further reading

• R.V.J. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1

External links

• Wellow station on SDJR website
• Wellow station and signal box
• Wellow station on navigable 1946 O. S. map