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Yeovil Junction is the busier, but less central, of two railway stations serving the town of Yeovil in Somerset, England; the other is Yeovil Pen Mill.The station is sited 2 miles (3.2 km) outside the town, in the village of Stoford; although Yeovil is in Somerset, the station was in Dorset until 1991. [1]
Yeovil Pen Mill is one of two railway stations that serve the town of Yeovil, Somerset, England.It is situated just under a mile to the east of the town centre. The station is located 59.5 miles (96 km) south of Bristol Temple Meads, on the Heart of Wessex Line.
The Yeovil Railway Centre is a small railway museum at Yeovil Junction on the L&SWR West of England Main Line between Salisbury and Exeter in the U.K. It was created in 1993, in response to British Rail 's decision to remove the turntable from Yeovil Junction.
Yeovil was added in 2016, having previously been part of First Hampshire & Dorset. The Bridgwater depot closed at the end of 2 September 2023 when crews and vehicles were transferred to the other depots. [6] After attempts to sell the Yeovil site failed, FirstBus suggested in 2023 that it would demolish it instead.
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The station opened on 1 June 1861, replacing an earlier Yeovil Hendford railway station when the line was extended. [1] It closed to passenger traffic on 3 October 1966, [ 2 ] but freight and parcels traffic continued to use the station until 3 March 1967, when these services were also withdrawn.
In 2018, SSE had plans to redevelop the site for a gas-fired power station, to be named Ferrybridge D, [58] and build a 9km gas pipeline to connect it to the gas transmission system. [59] Parts of 'C' station – including three of the original cooling towers, the electricity switch house and the substation – were going to be retained for its ...
On 17 June 2020, the Viking Wind Farm sponsor, SSE Renewables, made a final investment decision to proceed with the wind farm investment, conditional on certain indu stry code modifications, and "the outcome of the consultation on Ofgem’s minded-to position to approve the transmission link, expected in July 2020". [10]