Winscombe Station

Here we are, Winscombe station with a train from (not to) the direction of Yatton on its way to Cheddar and Wells. Post and parcels are being delivered and/or picked up, if you want to walk to Woodlands on Barton Road you walk off the platform, turn in the direction that the van faces, go down the ramp, turn right at Woodborough Road under the railway viaduct and follow that road until reaching the Church Road triangle. Turn left into Church Road, keep going until the first real road to the right and, since this is 1948, this is it. No Woodlands. That would be built as a development on the local estate of some chocolate manufacturing dynasty in 1957. The station building has been vandalised and its gable has been reconstructed horizontally from brick that could still be found. One lamp-post of the gas lighting is still there, a lot of the metal fencing is still there and, strangely enough, the old public conveniences at the bottom of the station drive are still there and open for use. And of course; the platform is still there.