Yatton railway station

The first section of the Bristol and Exeter Railway's (B&ER) main line opened on 14 June 1841 between Bristol and . "Clevedon Road" (as it was then known) was for a while the second station on the line west of Bristol, the first being Nailsea. was constructed in 1860 between Bristol and Nailsea, however there was an earlier station at , opened either with the line in 1841, or later in 1852. There is general agreement among such sources that the station, called "Ashton", closed in 1856; however other sources e.g. Oakley (2002) do not mention this station at all.|group="Note"|name="ashton"}} The line, engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was built as broad-gauge. There were significant…

The station is located in the north end of the village of Yatton, North Somerset, just west of the B3133 road between Clevedon and Congresbury. The station is on the Bristol to Exeter line, 130 mi from London Paddington and 11 mi from . It is the fourth station along the line from Bristol. The station is oriented along an axis at 57 degrees to the meridian. There are two platforms, on either side of the two tracks through the station. The southern platform, platform 1, is 162 m long and serves westbound trains (towards Weston-super-Mare); the northern platform, platform 2, is 121 m long and serves eastbound trains (towards Bristol). The line through the station has a speed limit of 100 mph.…