In this video we take a heritage railway tour around the amazing Green Park station in Bath part of the Somerset and Dorset Railway and learn its history.
See the before and after photos and find out what the station is used for now. See where the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway had their wooden goods shed.
This is a very unique station as it has wooden platforms that can still be seen today.
It was once a hive of activity as a vital link to the north and south and is soaked in rich history.
Sadly, the station closed in 1966, however, the building itself is being looked after by Ethical Properties today, enabling it's features and great space to be enjoyed by the people of Bath and visitors alike. There is plenty to see and do, including a large market and even a pub and cafe.
Green Park station was opened in 1870 as the terminus of Midland Railway's Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line. The station buildings were designed by the Midland Railway architect John Holloway Sanders.
It was built in an elegant style which blends well with the Georgian buildings around it and includes a vaulted glass roof in a single-span wrought iron arch structure.
The platform accommodation in the station was modest, having an arrival platform and a departure platform, with two sidings between them. The siding adjacent to the arrival platform was equipped with ground frame points to release an arriving train engine.
The station is on the north bank of the River Avon. The locomotive shed was about half a mile from the station to the north side of the main tracks. The goods yard was on the opposite side of the tracks from this. Access to the goods yard from central Bath was via the newly constructed Midland Bridge.
The Midland Railway's Bath branch had opened in 1869, but the river Avon bridge and the new station were not ready, so for a year the terminus was at a temporary station to the west of the river.
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