Bacton railway station
Bacton | |||||
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![]() Site of Bacton railway station in 1961 | |||||
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 | ||||
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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
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
- 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
- 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 |