Highbridge
Location type
StationNames and dates
Highbridge (1841-1950)Highbridge West (1950-1952)
Highbridge and Burnham (1952-1974)
Highbridge (1974-)
Opened on the Bristol and Exeter Railway.
Description
This is a two platform station.
The the north the Somerset Central Railway crossed on the level. There was a curve connecting the lines, north to east. Highbridge East station was to the immediate east.
There was a goods yard to the north on the west side of the line, approached from the north.
Tags
Station03/12/2017
| Nearby stations Highbridge East Burnham-on-Sea Bason Bridge Brent Knoll Dunball Halt Cossington Brean Road Halt Bawdrip Halt Edington Burtle Bridgwater North Bridgwater Bleadon and Uphill Shapwick Axbridge Weston Junction | Highbridge Locomotive Shed Puriton Factory Hinkley Point Powerstation Uphill Junction Peat Excavations Peat Excavations Worle Junction Sandford Stone Quarry Athelney Junction Wells Branch Junction Yeo Wharf Cogload Junction Tourist/other Weston-Super-Mare Grand Pier Weston-super-Mare Birnbeck Pier Steep Holm Island Wartime Battery |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 14/06/1841 | Bristol and Exeter Railway Bristol (Harbour Bridge Junction) to Bridgwater, and Weston Junction to Weston-super-Mare opened. Stations on these sections at: Nailsea, Clevedon Road, Banwell, Weston Junction, (possibly Oldmixon), Highbridge, and Bridgwater, and on the original Weston branch Weston-Super-Mare [1st]. |
| / /1950 | Bristol and Exeter Railway Highbridge renamed Highbridge West. |
| / /1952 | Bristol and Exeter Railway Highbridge West renamed Highbridge & Burnham. |
| / /1974 | Bristol and Exeter Railway Highbridge & Burnham renamed Highbridge. |
