Binegar | |
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![]() Binegar railway station in 1967 | |
General information | |
Location | Binegar, Mendip England, United Kingdom |
Grid reference | ST616492 |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Pre-grouping | Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway |
Post-grouping | SR and LMSR Western Region of British Railways |
Key dates | |
20 July 1874 | Opened |
7 March 1966[1] | Closed |
Binegar railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway in the county of Somerset in England. Opened on 20 July 1874, the station consisted of two platforms, with a building on the down platform. There was a substantial goods yard with two sheds and sidings, controlled from a 24 lever signal box. Being the first station north of the line's summit at Masbury Binegar was also where locomotives used as banking engines on north-bound trains would drop off and cross the line ready to return south.
The station closed to goods in 1963: passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed on 7 March 1966.
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