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COMBE ROW STATION

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Remains of the station at Comberow, part of the West Somerset Mineral Railway, opened in 1856 and closed in 1898. The remains of the platform and station building are visible but have large saplings obscuring it. It is 25 metres long, 6 metre wide with a stone revetted front edge, 0.7 metres high. The remains of a demolished building, the station, lie on the platform. They comprise a stone revettment wall, 10 metres long and 1.7 metres high with a large ash growing out of it. A disturbed area to the front comprises demolition debris. The station masters house is now called Coomberow Cottage and has been modernised and extended.

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For details see county SMR. (1)

The station for the West Somerset Mineral Railway at Comberow was the official terminus of the passenger service, although passengers transferred to the open truck which ascended the incline. The buildings included a station building with a single platform, a water tower, several sidings and the stationmasters house (2).

The remains of the platform and station building are visible at ST 0297 3533. The platform is overgrown with large saplings obscuring it. It is 25m long, 6m wide with a stone revetted front edge, 0.7m high. The remains of a demolished building, the station, lie on the platform. They comprise a stone revettment wall, 10m long and 1.7m high with a large ash growing out of it. A disturbed area to the front comprises demolition debris. The stationmasters house is now called Coomberow Cottage (ST 0292 3527), and has been modernised and extended (3).

The station was demolished in the 1930s (4).

The remains of Combe Row Station comprising the station platform, the revetment wall of the station building, a water tank support and the buried remains of a culvert. Scheduled. (5)

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( 1) Externally held archive reference

Somerset County Council SMR 29 Sep 1986

(2) by Roger Sellick with contributions by J R Hamilton and M H Jones 1970 The West Somerset mineral railway and the story of the Brendon Hills iron mines

Sellick R 1970 The West Somerset Mineral Railway

(3) Field Investigators Comments

Riley H 1998 RCHME Field Investigation

(4) Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments

(5) Scheduled Monument Notification

03-SEP-2004

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