Shoscombe and Single Hill Halt railway station

Shoscombe & Single Hill Halt was a small railway station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway serving small villages between Wellow and Radstock, about seven miles south of Bath.

Shoscombe & Single Hill Halt
Remains of the Halt in 1967
Location
Place	Shoscombe
Area	Bath and North East Somerset
Grid reference	ST720561
Operations
Post-grouping	SR and LMSR Western Region of British Railways
Platforms	2
History
23 September 1929	Opened
7 March 1966	Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

The station was the last to open on the Somerset and Dorset main line, with services beginning on 23 September 1929. It closed with the rest of the line on 7 March 1966 under the Beeching Axe.[1]

The station, sited in the hamlet of Single Hill, consisted of two bare concrete platforms, with ornate oil lamps but without buildings. A small building containing a booking office and a waiting room was provided on the footpath leading to the station.[1]

Somerset & Dorset train in 1959

Southbound Pines Express passing Shoscombe & Single Hill Halt in 1959

References

1. "Shoscombe and Single Hill Halt". Somerset and Dorset Railway. Retrieved 4 July 2009.

• Somerset Railway Stations, by Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, 2002.

External links

• Station on navigable O.S. map

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Radstock North Line and station closed		Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway SR and LMSRs		Wellow Line and station closed