Talk:Disused railway stations on the Bristol to Exeter Line

Oldmixon

The article states: "Situated just south of the road bridge by Uphill Junction, Oldmixon Station was built but never opened. The landowner made building the station a condition of allowing the railway to be built - but forgot to insist that trains stop there! The platform mounds were still visible in the 1960's"

I have also heard this tale, but I am highly sceptical about it as I have never found any reference to it in a railway history book. The land owner was the one that had "Devil's Bridge" named after him, and I assumed that it was actually at the other end of the cutting, where Bleadon & Uphill was finally opened. It would be easier to build it here than to make the cutting wider to accommodate any platforms, and the cutting runs right up to the Broadway bridge at Uphill Junction. As for the "earth mounds", where are/were these? There was a loading platform and siding for a small quarry on the east side of the line just north of the old Toll Road bridge at Bleadon & Uphill, but this was never a passenger station. Geof Sheppard 07:34, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the earth mounds, look at http://www.bristol-rail.co.uk/images/johnthorn5.jpg Notice how the last four or five telegraph poles look shorter because thay are set on the 'platforms' Jolly47roger 11:22, 26 August 2007 (UTC

Further to the above, I was at Weston Grammar School in the early '60s. I remember the platform mounds there then. The 'tale' was told by our history master (Mr Hill) who lived on Bleadon Hill. If there had been no evidence - and the site in question was only half a mile away - we would have pointed that out to him.Jolly47roger

I have taken a good look at the mounds in question. next to the Broadway bridge they are at window height, and then rise up quickly &ndash say over 120 feet – to the full height of the cutting. The earliest photogrpahs of the site were taken in 1891/2 by Rev. Malan; while he comments on the size of Devil's Bridge and passes on some local gossip about sheep walking on the parapet, he does not appear to mention the private station. None of the pictures clearly show the site that you talk about, but the shape of the ground does seem to match what is still there today. The pictures can be seen at The National Archives and many of them are reproduced in Broad gauge Finale (Wild Swan Publications, 1985, ISBN 0 906867 31 2).

I am still waiting to be convinced that this station is anything more than an "urban myth" Geof Sheppard 07:29, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Requested move 20 August 2015

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The result of the proposal was move per request, as implying a disambiguaton scheme not actually present and per the spirit of WP:NATURALDIS.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:45, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

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Disused railway stations (Bristol to Exeter Line) → Disused railway stations on the Bristol to Exeter Line – The bracketing currently used implies that this is a disambiguated page, and that this article's title is really "Disused railway stations", which it isn't. This is specifically about railway stations on one line, it makes more sense to refer to it without brackets. -mattbuck (Talk) 19:16, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

• Support per Matt's reasoning. The title implies this is ambiguated when it actually isn't. Stickee (talk) 00:31, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
• Support per nom -- 67.70.32.190 (talk) 05:04, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
• Support I'm not sure that the dab argument is true, but there is no reason for parentheses when a straightforward title is possible.Pincrete (talk) 09:04, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

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Beam Bridge - incorrect link

The section on Beam Bridge station includes a link to 'Beam Bridge', which is presumably to the village of that name but instead links to an article of bridges of beam-type construction. This possible because there appears to be no article for Beam Bridge which is a hamlet within the parish of Sampford_Arundel (per that article). I suggrest the link be removed. as I'm not part of this interest area I'll leave it to more interested parties to decide on , and effect, any needed change. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mwra (talk • contribs) 11:00, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting that, I've removed the link. Geof Sheppard (talk) 12:35, 24 August 2018 (UTC)