Bacton railway station
Appearance
Bacton | |
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General information | |
Location | Bacton, Herefordshire England |
Coordinates | 51°59′15″N 2°54′06″W / 51.9874°N 2.9018°W |
Grid reference | SO380325 |
Platforms | 1 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Golden Valley Railway |
Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
Key dates | |
1 September 1881 | Station opens as Bacton Road |
22 October 1883 | Station closes |
17 November 1883 | Station reopens |
2 July 1885 | Station closes |
19 August 1885 | Station reopens |
20 April 1898 | Station closes |
1 May 1901 | Station reopens |
1 July 1903 | Station renamed Bacton |
15 December 1941 | Station closes |
Bacton railway station was a station in Bacton, Herefordshire, England. It was located on the Great Western Railway branch line linking Pontrilas and Hay-on-Wye. The area is known as the Golden Valley.
History
[edit]Opened by the Golden Valley Railway in 1881, the station closed and re-opened three times in the next twenty years, and lost the Bacton Road suffix. It closed for the last time in 1941.
References
[edit]- Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
- Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.
- Bacton on navigable 1946 O. S. map
Further reading
[edit]- Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Branch Lines around Hay-on-Wye. Middleton Press. figs. 68-69. ISBN 9781904474920. OCLC 288983659.
Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
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Vowchurch Line and station closed |
Great Western Railway Golden Valley Railway |
Abbeydore Line and station closed |