Monkton Combe Halt railway station

Monkton Combe Halt
Site of the station in 2001
Location
Place	Monkton Combe
Area	Bath and North East Somerset
Coordinates	51°21′21″N 2°19′33″W / 51.35595°N 2.32595°WCoordinates: 51°21′21″N 2°19′33″W / 51.35595°N 2.32595°W
Operations
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	1
History
1910	Opened
1915	Passenger services suspended
1923	Passenger services resumed
1925	Closed to passengers
15 February 1951	Line closed
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MR Bristol and Gloucester Railway to Gloucester Bristol Harbour GWR Great Western Main Line to London Bristol Temple Meads St Philip's Marsh(TMD) River Avon GWR Bristol and Exeter Railway to Exeter Brislington Whitchurch Halt Pensford Pensford Viaduct over River Chew Clutton Camerton branch Hallatrow Farrington Gurney Halt Paulton Halt Radford and Timsbury Halt Camerton Dunkerton Colliery Halt Dunkerton Combe Hay Halt Midsomer Norton and Welton Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway Radstock West Midford Halt Monkton Combe Halt Wessex Main Line to Bath Spa Limpley Stoke Mells Road Westbury Wessex Main Line to Southampton Whatley Quarry Heart of Wessex Line to Westbury Frome Heart of Wessex Line to Weymouth

Monkton Combe Halt railway station was a railway station in Monkton Combe, Somerset, UK. It was built by the Great Western Railway in 1910, on the Camerton branch of the Bristol and North Somerset Railway line.

Operation

The Camerton branch had been built in 1882 from Hallatrow to Camerton, and extended in 1910 through Monkton Combe, where the station and level-crossing were built, to Limpley Stoke railway station, where it joined up with the line from Bath to Bradford-on-Avon railway station.^[1][2]

Passenger services started in 1910 and were suspended during the First World War on 22 March 1915; they resumed in 1923 (on 9 July, though Midford Halt never reopened) but were withdrawn entirely two years later on 21 September 1925.^[1][2] Passenger services ran five times a day and used GWR steam rail motors, and the station was run by one man who was also responsible for the level crossing, the signals, and maintaining the gardens.^[2]

After the end of regular passenger services, traffic included coal trains, some goods wagons to the mill, and a special train, with covered wagons for luggage, delivered or collected the boys from Monkton School at the beginning and end of school terms.^[2]

Closure

The goods services between Limpley Stoke and Camerton continued until Camerton Pit, the last working coal mine in the Cam Valley, ended production in 1950 and the line closed on 15 February 1951.

In 1952, the station was used as "Titfield" station in the Ealing comedy film The Titfield Thunderbolt.^[1] Many of the scenes of the village of "Titfield" were shot in the nearby village of Freshford.^[3]

The station was demolished in 1958.^[3]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Midford Halt Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Bristol and North Somerset Railway		Limpley Stoke Line and station closed

References

1. Browning, Michael. "The Railway comes to Hallatrow" (PDF). High Littleton & Hallatrow History and Parish Records. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
2. Monkton Combe Women's Institute (November 2000). Railways. Portrait of a Parish. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
3. Broadhead, Sheena. "Titfield Thunderbolt". Freshford Website. Retrieved 2 September 2016.