Yeovil Junction railway station

The Yeovil Junction Railway Station is the larger of the two remaining stations of the 42,000 -inhabitant city of Yeovil in the South Somerset in England. The train station is about two kilometers away from the closed building of the city on greenfield sites. The southern boundary of the railway facilities at the same time, since 1995, the border with the neighboring county of Dorset. This year, a boundary shift took place, since the station was previously located even in the neighboring county. The train station is 197 kilometers southwest of London Waterloo train station.

History

As the first railway company, the Bristol and Exeter Railway reached (B & ER), the city Yeovil in autumn 1853 on its west side in 2140 mm broad gauge. For the Yeovil Pen Mill railway station was built. In July 1860, the London and South Western Railway came (L & SWR ) on the east-west route London- Exeter to Yeovil and built to the south of the city of their station in standard gauge directly at the junction to the existing north-south connection of the B & ER.

The city of the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) was bought, already with its own line of Taunton Coming immediately south arrived (see - a few weeks earlier was the railway company Salisbury and Yeovil Railway ( S & YR), later - as well as the B & ER schematic diagram of the historical development ) and ran the Yeovil Town railway station. The networks of different companies were interconnected. Yeovil Junction being the youngest city and the most distant of the three stations was the interchange station of the city.

To this already quite complicated track structure nor a broad-gauge track of the GWR to the "L & SWR " Yeovil Junction Station was built from June 1864 additionally, the further was the transport of Clifton Maybank Branch south available. About this track especially the transport of goods between the two companies was settled. This transfer was possible from mid-June 1874 when the broad gauge tracks of the GWR were converted to standard gauge.

In 1870 the expansion of the L & SWR route to duplication. The Yeovil Junction station had two island platforms and a central passage for track -converting locomotives. The platforms are connected with the main platform over a wooden footbridge. To the north of the platforms there are some sidings.

In the 1960s, a lot of railway infrastructure was, as everywhere in England, dismantled; even a closure of Yeovil Junction was considered. The north -south and east- west connection has remained to this day; but the southern platform shut down for the passenger.