Watchet
Location type
StationNames and dates
Watchet (1862-1971)Watchet (1976-)
Station code: WCT National Rail
Opened on the Minehead Railway.
Opened on the West Somerset Railway.
Local
Tags
Station preserved
| Nearby stations Watchet (WSMR) Doniford Beach Halt Williton Washford (WSMR) Washford Blue Anchor Roadwater Stogumber Dunster Cornbellow Minehead Crowcombe Heathfield Wiveliscombe Bishop^s Lydeard Milverton | Colton Mine Raleigh^s Cross Mine Brendon Hill Goods Luxborough Road Goods Gupworthy Goods Hinkley Point Powerstation Bathealton Tunnel Venn Cross Tunnel Taunton Cider Factory Fairwater Yard Works Porthkerry No 2 Tunnel Aberthaw Powerstation Porthkerry Viaduct Tourist/other Steep Holm Island Wartime Battery |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 04/07/1909 | West Somerset Mineral Railway The Somerset Mineral Syndicate sub-lets the line from the Ebbw Vale company. The line is re-opened between a new jetty at Watchet and Brendon Hill where a 2 foot mine line extends the railway. Gupwrthy is not re-opened. |
| / /1911 | West Somerset Mineral Railway Watchet to Washford section used by an Australian company to demonstrate automatic train control. |
