Heritage railway stations · Mid Wales
Bacton railway station
In or near Vowchurch.
Bacton railway station in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.
Ian Capper — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Free entry
About
Bacton railway station is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: River Wye SSSI
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
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.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
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. It closed for the last time in 1941.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.9875, -2.9018
- District
- Herefordshire, County of
- Parish
- Abbey Dore
- Postcode
- HR2 0AJ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire
Sources
- wikidata: Q4840039 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Bacton railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Bacton railway station?
- Bacton railway station is in Mid Wales, United Kingdom (postcode HR2 0AJ), in the parish of Abbey Dore.
- What is Bacton railway station?
- Bacton railway station in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.
- How do I get to Bacton railway station?
- Drivers can use postcode HR2 0AJ.
- Is Bacton railway station a protected site?
- Yes — Bacton railway station is part of the River Wye SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- Is Bacton railway station free to visit?
- Yes, Bacton railway station is free to enter.
- How do I get to Bacton railway station?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode HR2 0AJ. It sits within the Hereford and South Herefordshire parliamentary constituency.