Bacton railway station

Bacton
Site of Bacton railway station in 1961
Location
Place	Bacton
Area	Herefordshire
Coordinates	51°59′15″N 2°54′06″W / 51.9874°N 2.9018°W / 51.9874; -2.9018Coordinates: 51°59′15″N 2°54′06″W / 51.9874°N 2.9018°W / 51.9874; -2.9018
Grid reference	SO380325
Operations
Original company	Golden Valley Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	?
History
1 September 1881	Station opens as Bacton Road
22 October 1883	Station closes
17 November 1883	Station reopens
2 July 1885	Station closes
19 August 1885	Station reopens
20 April 1898	Station closes
1 May 1901	Station reopens
1 July 1903	Station renamed Bacton
15 December 1941	Station closes
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Bacton railway station was a station in Bacton, Herefordshire, England. It was located on the Great Western Railway branch line linking Pontrilas and Hay-on-Wye. The area is known as the Golden Valley.

History

Opened by the Golden Valley Railway in 1881, the station closed and re-opened three times in the next twenty years, and lost the Bacton Road suffix. Becoming part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923, it closed for the last time in 1941.

References

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1
• A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0
• Bacton on navigable 1946 O. S. map

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Branch Lines around Hay-on-Wye. Middleton Press. figs. 68-69. ISBN 9781904474920. OCLC 288983659.