Dunkerton Colliery Halt railway station

The station opened on 9 October 1911 by the Great Western Railway, around a year after the line and the main stations had opened. It was, from the outset, a basic unmanned halt, and was intended to serve the villages of Tunley and Carlingcott as well as workers at the colliery itself. The station first closed to passengers on 22 March 1915, reopened on 9 July 1923 and closed again on 21 September 1925 to both passengers and goods traffic.[1] The film The Titfield Thunderbolt was filmed on the line in summer 1952. The duel between the train and the steam roller was filmed in the disused sidings of the station where the film crew constructed a level crossing.[2]