Glastonbury and Street railway station

Glastonbury and Street
Glastonbury and Street station photographed in June 1979. It had been closed to passengers since 1966.
General information
Location	Glastonbury, Mendip England
Grid reference	ST491389
Platforms	3
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Somerset Central Railway
Post-grouping	SR and LMS Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
28 August 1854	Opened (Glastonbury)
July 1886	Renamed (Glastonbury and Street)
7 March 1966	Closed

Glastonbury and Street railway station was the biggest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway main line from Highbridge to Evercreech Junction until closed in 1966 under the Beeching axe. It was the junction for the short branch line to Wells which closed in 1951.

Opened in 1854 as Glastonbury, and renamed in 1886 to show that it also served the adjacent village of Street, it had three platforms, two for Evercreech to Highbridge services and one for the branch service to Wells. The station had a large goods yard controlled from a signal box.^[1]