Bacton railway station

51°59′15″N 2°54′06″W / 51.9874°N 2.9018°W / 51.9874; -2.9018Grid referenceSO380325Platforms1Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyGolden Valley RailwayPre-groupingGreat Western RailwayPost-groupingGreat Western RailwayKey dates1 September 1881Station opens as Bacton Road22 October 1883Station closes17 November 1883Station reopens2 July 1885Station closes19 August 1885Station reopens20 April 1898Station closes1 May 1901Station reopens1 July 1903Station renamed Bacton15 December 1941Station closes

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.

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.

References

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
• Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.
• Bacton on navigable 1946 O. S. map

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Branch Lines around Hay-on-Wye. Middleton Press. figs. 68-69. ISBN 9781904474920. OCLC 288983659.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Vowchurch Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Golden Valley Railway		Abbeydore Line and station closed