Symonds Yat railway station

Symonds Yat
Symonds Yat Tunnel with train emerging 1895
General information
Location	Symonds Yat, Herefordshire England
Coordinates	51.8384°N 2.6387°W / 51.8384; -2.6387
Grid reference	SO561157
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Ross and Monmouth Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
4 August 1873	Opened
5 January 1959	Closed

Symonds Yat railway station is a disused railway station on the Ross and Monmouth Railway constructed on the banks of the River Wye in Symonds Yat East.

v t e Ross and Monmouth Railway
mi-ch Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway 0-00 Ross-on-Wye Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway 3-12 Walford Halt 4-10 Kerne Bridge River Wye Lydbrook tunnel River Wye Severn and Wye Railway 5-40 Lydbrook Junction Symonds Yat tunnel 7-50 Symonds Yat Herts, England Mon, Wales border 10-59 Hadnock Halt 12-31 Monmouth Mayhill Wye Valley Railway and Coleford Railway River Wye 13-10 Monmouth Troy Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway

Opened in 1873, it consisted of two platforms and a timber station building on the down platform, it closed in 1959 with the closure of the line.[1] The railways were at first used as a quick means of bringing the boats back from Chepstow.[2]

Symonds Yat station site, now buried under a car park

A camping coach was positioned here by the Western Region from 1953 to 1958; an early form of self-catering accommodation which used converted redundant railway carriages for occupation by holidaymakers who could arrive and depart by train.[3] Today the station site has long been levelled but the foundations of the station building and platforms remain and the area now forms a car parking area for a local hotel inn.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Hadnock Halt		Ross and Monmouth Railway British Railways		Lydbrook Junction

References

1. Handley, Brian M.; Dingwall, Rod (1982). The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch. Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-530-9.
2. Kissack, Keith E. (1975). Monmouth: The Making of a County Town. London: Phillimore & Co. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-85033-209-4.
3. McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Scenes from the Past. Vol. 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 95. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.

External links

• Station on 1952 OS Map
• http://www.oldukphotos.com/graphics/England%20Photos/Herefordshire,%20Symonds%20Yat,%20Rail%20Station%201910%27s.jpg Photograph of the station circa 1910]
• Photograph of the station site today