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    Cogload Junction is a railway junction in Durston, Somerset, England. It is where the 1906-opened London to Penzance Line via Castle Cary joins the original...
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    Line from which it diverges at Reading railway station. It runs to Cogload Junction (east of Taunton) where it joins the Bristol to Exeter and Penzance...
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  • Cary Railway is a railway line from Castle Cary railway station to Cogload Junction near Taunton, Somerset, England, which reduced the length of the journey...
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    Aynho Junction in Aynho, Northamptonshire Worting Junction near Basingstoke, Hampshire (the flyover is called Battledown Flyover) Cogload Junction near...
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  • which effectively left Durston and Lyng Halt on a loop line from Cogload Junction, the station continued to serve the branch. The locomotive turntable...
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    from the branch lines. In the 1930s the lines through Taunton from Cogload Junction to Norton Fitzwarren were widened from two to four tracks; those east...
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    subsequently extended to Devizes and Westbury in 1862 and ultimately to Cogload Junction near Taunton by 1906. The station has a level crossing at its western...
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    north through to Taunton and Cogload Junction and southwards to Totnes and Torquay as well the branches out to Exmouth Junction and Crediton. Next to this...
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    branch line joins from the left. A short cutting brings the line to Cogload Junction; the line towards Taunton climbs up here and crosses above the Reading...
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    Fitzwarren through Taunton to Cogload Junction was increased from two to four tracks on 2 December 1931 and the junction station was enlarged which meant...
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  • further east, a new line was to be built between Castle Cary and a new Cogload Junction, between Durston and Taunton, referred to as the 'Castle Cary and Langport...
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    MB (voestalpine SIGNALING Siershahn GmbH) Hot axle box detector at Cogload Junction, England A wheelset from a GWR wagon showing a plain, or journal, bearing...
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    joining the old B&ER line at Cogload Junction, east of Taunton. The original route section between Bristol and Cogload Junction was diminished in importance...
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    services travelling south from Bristol on the Bristol to Exeter line at Cogload Junction, to the north of Taunton. The line proceeds to serve the stations of...
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    opened from Castle Cary to the existing Bristol to Exeter line at Cogload Junction in 1906. This transformed Frome from a station on a secondary north...
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    station remaining open only until 5 October 1964. It is located close to Cogload Junction, a vital railway flyover. The parish Church of St John was rebuilt...
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    opened from Castle Cary to the existing Bristol to Exeter line at Cogload Junction in 1906. This transformed Castle Cary from a station on a secondary...
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    In 1931 the GWR started a project to quadruple the track between Cogload Junction (where the mainline from Bristol Temple Meads and the north met the...
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    completion of a new cut-off line from Castle Cary railway station to Cogload Junction near Taunton. Most of the original Berks and Hants stations have been...
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    Chirton in 1900 (along with that further west from Castle Cary to Cogload Junction six years later) completed the GWR's new main line from London Paddington...
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    station closed along with the rest of the stops between Castle Cary and Cogload Junction in 1962, the line itself is still in use as part of the Reading to...
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    arch II carried the London and Birmingham Railway over Bridge Road Cogload Junction Flyover Durston, Somerset 1931 Coldrennick Viaduct Menheniot, Cornwall...
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    railway was diverted south of the ridge to join the line from Bristol at Cogload Junction. The current church at East Lyng, which is dedicated to St Bartholomew...
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  • 1906 part of the line was opened at the western end, from a new junction at Cogload, near Taunton, to Somerton. Finally the central section, and the...
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    1904 620 yd (570 m) Fairwood Junction (up) 111+1⁄2 553 yd (506 m) Fairwood Junction (down) 111+3⁄4 495 yd (453 m) Cogload Jn – Creech Jn 159+1⁄4 March...
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