• The YeovilTaunton line was a railway line in England, built by the Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) to connect its main line with the market town of...
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    Castle Cary to Taunton. This route shared some of the route of the YeovilTaunton line west of Langport, but joined the existing main line further south...
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    west are reached more quickly from London Paddington via the Reading–Taunton line. Once all sections had been incorporated into the London and South Western...
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    England. It shares the Wessex Main Line as far as Westbury and then follows the course of the Reading to Taunton Line as far as Castle Cary. The cities...
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    Railway line was opened between Taunton and Yeovil. The town's first railway was a branch line from the Bristol and Exeter Railway near Taunton to a terminus...
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    history of the Taunton-Yeovil train line". Chard and Ilminster News. 17 August 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2016. Maggs, Colin G (1991). Taunton Steam. Bath:...
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    Exeter Railway's (B&ER) line from Taunton, which initially terminated at Yeovil Hendford, was extended to connect with the GWR at Yeovil Pen Mill from 2 February...
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    Stoford; although Yeovil is in Somerset, the station was in Dorset until 1991. It is located 122 miles 48 chains (197.3 km) down the line from London Waterloo...
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    Taunton. At Durston the former Yeovil branch line joins from the left. A short cutting brings the line to Cogload Junction; the line towards Taunton climbs...
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    Yeovil Town was a railway station that served the town of Yeovil in Somerset, England. The station was a stop on the Yeovil to Taunton Line and also had...
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  • Charton Mackrell on 20 May 1906. The route followed part of the Yeovil to Taunton Line – which was rebuilt with a second track and at a higher level to...
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    28A Taunton to Minehead X28 Taunton to Minehead express 30 Taunton to Axminster 51 Abbey Manor Park to Cavalier Way 54 Taunton to Yeovil 58/58A Yeovil to...
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    between Taunton and Nuneaton, via Swindon and Oxford. In March 2019, the company announced new proposals for services from Taunton and Yeovil to Swindon...
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    Wincanton Yeovil The electoral wards included: Camelot and Wessex. A30 A37 A303 A357 Bruton (Heart of Wessex Line and Reading to Taunton Line), Great Western...
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    Michael is a village and civil parish in Somerset, three miles east of Taunton. The parish straddles the M5 motorway and includes several scattered settlements...
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    to Weymouth. The Wessex Main Line intersects the Reading to Taunton Line at Westbury and the West of England Main Line at Salisbury. The stations served...
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    situated on the edge of the Somerset Levels, 7 miles (11.3 km) north-west of Yeovil in the South Somerset district. The parish includes Hurst, approximately...
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    Taunton (/ˈtɔːntən/) is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a minster church. Its population in 2011 was 64,621. Its thousand-year...
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    Exeter St Davids via Yeovil Pen Mill, Yeovil Junction and Honiton, not calling at Taunton and reversing at Exeter. After Taunton it continues to Exeter...
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    day as the GWR line from Frome to Yeovil. The West Somerset Railway was authorised in 1857 to make a line from the B&ER west of Taunton to Watchet, where...
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    miles (2.4 km) long branch line which loops off the main line railway, which carries services on both the Reading to Taunton line and Bristol to Weymouth...
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    junction, serving the Reading to Taunton line with services to and from Penzance and London Paddington; the Wessex Main Line with services to and from Cardiff...
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    the Salisbury to Exeter main line, and the other, opened in 1866, ran south-eastwards from the Bristol – Taunton main line. Each branch had its own Chard...
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  • station southwards is Bridgwater. The Bristol and Exeter opened its Yeovil Branch Line on 1 October 1853 from a new station situated at the north end of...
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  • Beverley rail line". York Press. Retrieved 5 January 2018. "East Riding Council takes first step to reopening York to Beverley railway line". The Yorkshire...
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  • Bradfords Group (category Companies based in Yeovil)
    In 1853 the Great Western Railway line was opened from Taunton to Yeovil, and Jabez Bradford started the Yeovil branch of the business. GWR came to...
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    station is on the Reading to Taunton line 115.25 miles (185.48 km) south west of London Paddington and the Bristol to Weymouth line 47.75 miles (77 km) south...
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    557), the largest settlements are Weston-super-Mare (82,418), Taunton (60,479), and Yeovil (49,698). Wells (12,000) is a city, the second-smallest by population...
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    Sixteen casualties were treated at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton and 26 at Yeovil District Hospital. A surgeon was flown by helicopter from the major...
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    London to Penzance Line links Taunton and Castle Cary with Paddington, while in the south the London to Exeter Line links Crewkerne, Yeovil Junction and Templecombe...
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