Closed Stations Journey quiz

[DerekC]

If I am reading the itinerary correctly, rather than turning south towards Weymouth we should have kept on westward from Castle Cary Junction to:

Alford Halt

Sorry - Calthrop was right - it's Marston Magna

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glad that you corrected that last posting, as I was about to explain matters....

Yeovil Town

 

[DerekC]

Yeovil Hendford (1st station - 1846 to 1861)

 

[Calthrop]

Montacute

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yeovil Hendford (1st station - 1846 to 1861)

As far as I can ascertain, there was only ever one station site for Yeovil Hendford (which was closed as you correctly say in 1861) and services were then operated from Yeovil Town station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Montacute

Has a station BEFORE Montacute been omitted?

Martock......to follow after Montacute.

 

[DerekC]

Thorney & Kingsbury Halt

As far as I can ascertain, there was only ever one station site for Yeovil Hendford (which was closed as you correctly say in 1861) and services were then operated from Yeovil Town station.

The original terminus at Yeovil Hendford was about 250 yd east of Yeovil Hendford Halt, which existed from 1932 until the closure of the line in 1964

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thorney & Kingsbury Halt

Langport West

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The original terminus at Yeovil Hendford was about 250 yd east of Yeovil Hendford Halt, which existed from 1932 until the closure of the line in 1964

Again, I note what you say and when this current journey was launched, you will note in the itinerary of the published journey preamble that I so described the line in question as being that of the B&ER Yeovil to Taunton Line, which still would allow any station or halt later opened by the GWR, as does so occur on other lines (especially in the area of South Wales where the GWR opened many new halts on existing lines in the 20th century) which therefore are allowable as posting submissions on this quiz.

Therefore it is correct to say that on this particular named line, Hendford Halt should be regarded as being between Yeovil Hendford and Montacute.

 

[A Challenge]

Athelney

 

[Calthrop]

I was un-scientific about "the Hendfords": saw in atlas, Hendford Halt a very short way after Yeovil Hendford -- thought, "does the Halt count, or is it 'subsumed'? -- eeny, meeny..."; and made the wrong choice by omitting it. Slightly similar situation now -- alternative routes into Taunton, one with no intermediate stops, the other with two. Am figuring that as the old Yeovil & Taunton line, not the early-20th-century main-line cut-off, is concerned, the "intermediate" places are in:

Lyng Halt

 

[Ash Bridge]

Durston

 

[Calthrop]

Creech St. Michael Halt

 

[Ash Bridge]

Norton Fitzwarren

 

[DerekC]

Wellington

 

[Ash Bridge]

Beam Bridge

My apologies, for some reason I had it in my mind that we were continuing to Cowley Bridge Junction with a reversal at that location, obviously should have refreshed my memory with the preamble.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

OBSERVATION

The preamble to this journey shows the next line to traverse after the Bristol and Exeter Railway was the Devon and Somerset Railway. We needed to have left the former line at Norton Fitzwarren to do this, meaning the last two postings made of Wellington and Beam Bridge are incorrect and needed to be disregarded.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Norton Fitzwarren

Milverton

 

[DerekC]

OBSERVATION

The preamble to this journey shows the next line to traverse after the Bristol and Exeter Railway was the Devon and Somerset Railway. We needed to have left the former line at Norton Fitzwarren to do this, meaning the last two postings made of Wellington and Beam Bridge are incorrect and needed to be disregarded.

Sorry, my eye slipped a couple of lines:-

Wiveliscombe

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Venn Cross

 

[DerekC]

Morebath

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Morebath Junction Halt

It is from here that we join the next line of the journey.... the Exe Valley Railway

 

[A Challenge]

Bampton (Devon)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cove Halt

 

[A Challenge]

Bolham Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tiverton

 

[DerekC]

West Exe Halt

 

[A Challenge]

Cadeleigh

 

[Calthrop]

Burn Halt

 

[A Challenge]

Up Exe