Bacton railway station
Former railway station in Herefordshire, England
51°59′15″N 2°54′06″W / 51.9874°N 2.9018°W / 51.9874; -2.9018
Bacton railway station was a station in Bacton, Herefordshire, England. It was located on the Great Western Railway branch line linking Pontrilas and Hay-on-Wye. The area is known as the Golden Valley.
History
Opened by the Golden Valley Railway in 1881, the station closed and re-opened three times in the next twenty years, and lost the Bacton Road suffix. It closed for the last time in 1941.
References
- Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
- Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.
- Bacton on navigable 1946 O. S. map
Further reading
- Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Branch Lines around Hay-on-Wye. Middleton Press. figs. 68-69. ISBN 9781904474920. OCLC 288983659.
Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
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Vowchurch Line and station closed | Great Western Railway Golden Valley Railway | Abbeydore Line and station closed |
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Closed railway stations in Herefordshire
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- Ford Bridge
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Gloucester Railway
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- Bacton
- Abbeydore
and Hereford Railway
- Withington (Hereford)
- Stoke Edith
- Ashperton
and Leominster Railway
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