The Chard branch lines were two lines serving the town of Chard in Somerset, England. One was a northward branch, opened in 1863, from the Salisbury to...

extend to Chard Junction as originally proposed. The line between Basingstoke, Salisbury and Exeter is not electrified. Beyond Exeter, the line continued...

the present Tesco roundabout. The Chard Canal was a tub boat canal built between 1835 and 1842. Chard Branch Line was created in 1860 to connect the...

Somerset, England. It was the junction of a short branch line to Chard. It was opened in 1860 as Chard Road, and closed in 1966. An adjacent milk depot...

Railway. The village had a Chalet-style station, known as Hatch, on the Chard Branch Line which closed in 1963. In 1962, following the Beeching Report, railway...

Taunton Line which it then joins to complete the journey to Taunton, passing Creech St Michael and the former junction of the Chard branch line on the...

These were the Yeovil branch line (1 October 1853), the West Somerset Railway to Watchet (31 March 1862), the Chard Branch Line (11 September 1866), and...

The Bristol and Exeter Railway line was opened through the village in 1842 and the junction of the Chard Branch Line was located here in 1860, but Creech...

alongside the railway. The line passes the site of Creech St Michael railway station and the junction of the former Chard Branch Line.[page needed] Passenger...

Colonel John Rouse Merriott Chard VC (21 December 1847 – 1 November 1897) was a British Army officer who received the Victoria Cross, the highest military...

first railway to serve Chard was the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) which opened Chard Road on its new Yeovil to Exeter line in 1860. On 8 May 1863...

Pen Mill (Heart of Wessex Line), Great Western Railway Chard branch line, former Great Western Railway line between Chard and Taunton Yeovil Railway...

helicopter training. Ilton Halt was a small railway station on the Chard Branch Line between 1928 and 1962. It included a platform of concrete construction...

of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) and the A358 (Taunton to Chard and Axminster). The parish includes the hamlet of Sea. Ilminster is mentioned...

The Chard Canal was a 13.5 miles (21.7 km) tub boat canal in Somerset, England, that ran from the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal at Creech St. Michael,...

area, two on the Seaton branch line, and one on the Chard branch line. Later on, some were used on the Lymington branch line, but by the end of 1867 all...

1928) Lyng Halt on the old Yeovil branch, and Durston and Creech St Michael railway stations on the Bristol to Exeter Line, but fast trains avoided the middle...

trackbed of the old branch running off across the moors towards Athelney. A branch line, the Chard branch, from Taunton to Chard Central was opened on...

in Great Britain Beeching cuts Morrison, Brian (ed.). "The Meldon Quarry Branch". Modern Railways Pictorial, 1986. Ian Allan. p. 16. ISBN 0-7110-1510-4...

line. It opened a number of branches within the general area it served: to Clevedon, Cheddar, Wells, Weston-super-Mare, Chard, Yeovil and Tiverton. The...

The Charding Nullah, traditionally known as the Lhari stream and called Demchok River by China, is a small river that originates near the Charding La pass...

it began to operate town services in Taunton when the town's single tram line closed due to increases in the cost of electricity. National's operations...

with three semi-circular arches. Donyatt had a small halt along the Chard Branch Line just before Ilminster, which served the local community, it was constructed...

the B&ER main line to serve Creech St Michael. It cost £628 to build and was located to the east of the junction for the Chard branch. Lyng Halt was...

difficult to defend, Chard ordered the defenders to abandon the perimeter around the hospital and withdraw to a smaller second line of defence by the storehouse...

Portishead branch line for freight traffic on 7 January 2002. The period of canals as an important transport network was short-lived. Before the Chard Canal...

26 miles (24.56 km) single-track section between Chard Junction and Honiton. In the late 1980s the line found itself part of British Rail's Network SouthEast...

of election. There was a station on the Chard Branch Line that closed in 1962. The road bridge over the line is designated as a Grade II listed building...

(later Chard Junction) to Chard Town; Lyme Regis; the branch line from Axminster to Lyme Regis opened on 24 August 1903; Seaton; a branch line from Seaton...

was built using materials from the 1928 Ilton Halt formerly of the Chard branch line. The platform was reconstructed and became Cranmore West in 1978....