Disused railway lines and closed stations in Somerset

255 miles of disused railway
124 closed stations
19 stations open today
61 named lost lines

Somerset has 255 miles of disused railway and 124 closed stations, against 19 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 6.5 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Somerset & Dorset Railway, with 28 miles of its route inside Somerset.

See Somerset’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 255 miles of lost railway in Somerset break down as 198 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 54 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 2.0 miles with track still in place but no trains and 0.8 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Somerset

61 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Somerset; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Somerset & Dorset Railway	28
Evercreech and Burnham Branch	24
Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway	14
Barnstaple Branch	13
Yeovil Branch	12
Cheddar Valley Line	11
Somerset and Dorset Line	9.4
Taunton to Chard Line	9.1
Bristol and North Somerset Railway	7.3
Wrington Vale Light Railway	6.3
Cheddar Valley Branch	5.7
East Somerset Railway	5.6
West Somerset Mineral Railway	5.5
Frome and North Somerset Line	5.3
Radstock Frome	5.3
Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line	5.0
Bridgwater Branch	4.0
West Somerset Mineral	4.0
Bristol & Bath Railway Path	3.6
Camerton & Limpley Stoke Railway	3.5
Clevedon Branch	3.5
Colliers Way	3.4
Chard Junction Branch	3.3
Two Tunnels Greenway	2.9
Hallatrow & Camerton Branch	2.7
Chard Branch	2.7
Broadstone Junction to Templecombe Lower Line	2.2
Durston Loop	2.1
West of England Line	2.0
Durston & Yeovil Branch Line	1.9
Norton Radstock Greenway	1.7
Puriton ROF Branch	1.6
Whatley Quarry Line	1.6
Somerset Coal Canal Tramway	1.6
Vobster Branch	1.6
Foxcote Colliery - Turners Tower Tramway	1.5
Linear Park	1.2
Bromley Colliery Tramway	1.1
Weymouth Line	1.1
Greyfield Colliery Railway	0.9

And 21 shorter stretches: GWR to Writhlington Tramway, Meadows Way, Comberrow Incline, Strawberry Line, Bridgwater Dock Branch, Hallatrow & Camerton, Camerton & Limpleystoke, Portishead Branch Line, Fry's Bottom Siding, Old Taunton to Chard Train Line, Taunton West Loop, Weston-super-Mare Miniature Railway, Highbridge Wharf Branch, Old Railway Line, Templecombe Loop, Braysdown Colliery Inclined Plane, Fry's Bottom Colliery Line, Pensford Colliery Incline, Somerset & Dorset, Dunball Wharf Branch and Ludlows Colliery Lines.

Closed railway stations in Somerset

All 124 closed and former stations in Somerset, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Somerset

19 stations in Somerset still have a train service. The busiest are Bath Spa (6.5 million a year), Taunton (1.6 million a year), Weston-super-Mare (1.0 million a year), Keynsham (566,218 a year) and Yatton (527,348 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan, Bristol, Newport, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Dorset and Devon.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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