Edington Burtle railway station was a station on the

Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR, also known as the S&D, S&DR or SDJR), was an English railway line Joint railway, jointly owned by the Midland Railway (MR) and the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) that grew to connect Bat ...

, and served the village of

Edington, Somerset Edington is a rural village, situated on the north side of the Polden Hills in Somerset, England. Either side of it lie the villages of Chilton Polden and Catcott, and north of it is the small village of Burtle. There is a 12th-century chur ...

, UK. Originally named Edington Road, with the village two miles away, it became in 1890 the junction for the

Bridgwater Bridgwater is a historic market town and civil parish in Somerset, England. The town had a population of 41,276 at the 2021 census. Bridgwater is at the edge of the Somerset Levels, in level and well-wooded country. The town lies along both sid ...

branch off the Highbridge line and for the next period in its life was known as Edington Junction. After the Bridgwater line closed to passengers in 1952, the station was renamed as Edington Burtle –

Burtle Burtle is a village and civil parish on the Somerset Levels in Somerset, England. History Burtle Priory (also known as Burtle Moor Priory) originated as a hermitage on a site called Sprauellissmede, endowed by William son of Godfrey of Edding ...

is a village to the north of the station, and somewhat closer than Edington. In February 1956 the down platform and signal box was closed. Goods Yard closed on 13 July 1964.The Somerset & Dorset Then and Now by Mac Hawkins page 191 It closed in March 1966 when the line was shut as part of the

Beeching axe The Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s. They are named ...

References

* ''Somerset Railway Stations'', by Mike Oakley. Dovecote Press, 2002.

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Station on navigable O.S. map
Disused railway stations in Somerset Former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966 Beeching closures in England {{SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub