Badminton railway station

Badminton
General information
Location	South Gloucestershire
Platforms	2
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1 July 1903	Station opened
3 June 1968	Station closed

View eastward, towards Swindon in 1961

Badminton railway station is a closed railway station in Gloucestershire, England. It served the villages of Badminton and Acton Turville.

History

Opened by the Great Western Railway in 1903 . It became part of British Railways on 1 January 1948, the station was closed in 1968

The site today

The station buildings and sections of platforms still stand derelict with trains passing through the site on the South Wales Main Line.

 

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Hullavington		Great Western Railway South Wales Main Line		Chipping Sodbury

 

Further reading

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Chris Leigh , (1981). GWR Country Stations. Ian Allan Ltd.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) ISBN 0-7110-1108-7

 

External links

• Badminton on navigable 1946 O. S. map
• Badminton on Geograph
• The local M.P. raises the closure in Parliament