Symonds Yat railway station

Symonds Yat railway station is a disused railway station on the Ross and Monmouth Railway constructed on the banks of the River Wye in Symonds Yat East.

Symonds Yat
Symonds Yat Tunnel with train emerging 1895
General information
LocationSymonds Yat, Herefordshire
England
Coordinates51°50′18″N 2°38′19″W / 51.8384°N 2.6387°W / 51.8384; -2.6387
Grid referenceSO561157
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-groupingRoss and Monmouth Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
4 August 1873Opened
5 January 1959Closed

Opened in 1873, it consisted of two platforms and a timber station building on the down platform, it closed in 1959 with the closure of the line.[1] The railways were at first used as a quick means of bringing the boats back from Chepstow.[2]

Symonds Yat station site, now buried under a car park

A camping coach was positioned here by the Western Region from 1953 to 1958; an early form of self-catering accommodation which used converted redundant railway carriages for occupation by holidaymakers who could arrive and depart by train.[3] Today the station site has long been levelled but the foundations of the station building and platforms remain and the area now forms a car parking area for a local hotel inn.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Hadnock Halt   Ross and Monmouth Railway
British Railways
  Lydbrook Junction

References

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  1. ^ Handley, Brian M.; Dingwall, Rod (1982). The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch. Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-530-9.
  2. ^ Kissack, Keith E. (1975). Monmouth: The Making of a County Town. London: Phillimore & Co. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-85033-209-4.
  3. ^ McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Scenes from the Past. Vol. 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 95. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
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