Midford railway station

Midford
Station building and platform in 1962
General information
Location	Midford, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset England
Grid reference	ST761607
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Somerset and Dorset Railway
Post-grouping	SR and LMSR Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
20 July 1874	Opened
10 June 1963	Closed to goods traffic
7 March 1966	Closed to passenger traffic

Midford railway station was a single-platform station on the Bath extension of the Somerset and Dorset Railway, just to the north of the point where the double-track became a single track. It served the village of Midford. The station was closed with the rest of the line in March 1966 under the Beeching axe, though it had been unstaffed for some years before that.

There was a small goods yard to the north of the station, towards the entrance to the Combe Down Tunnel, which loaded Fuller's earth from Tucking Mill.^[1] South of the station, a signal box presided over the double track junction: the railway then ran across the Midford valley on a high viaduct that still exists.

For about four years from 1911 to 1915, Midford had a second railway station, Midford Halt located on the GWR Camerton Branch, which passed under the S&DJR viaduct.