Yeovil Town railway station

Yeovil Town
Yeovil Town in 1964
General information
Location	Yeovil, Somerset England
Platforms	4
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Bristol and Exeter Railway
Pre-grouping	GWR/LSWR Joint
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1 June 1861	Station opens
3 October 1966	Closed for passenger traffic
3 March 1967	Station closes

Yeovil Town was a railway station that served the town of Yeovil in Somerset, England.

History

The station was a stop on the Yeovil to Taunton Line and also had shuttle services to Pen Mill and Yeovil Junction stations. The station opened on 1 June 1861, replacing an earlier Yeovil Hendford railway station when the line was extended. It closed to passenger traffic on 3 October 1966, but freight and parcels traffic continued to use the station until 3 March 1967, when these services were also withdrawn.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Hendford Halt		Great Western Railway Yeovil to Taunton Line		Yeovil Junction or Yeovil Pen Mill Shuttle Service

The site today

This date stone is all that remains of Yeovil's most central railway station

After closure, the station was demolished and the site was cleared to serve as a car and coach park. A cinema and leisure complex has also been built on part of the site.

Further reading

• Robert Adley (1988). Covering My Tracks. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 0-85059-882-6