The Chard branch lines were two lines serving the town of Chard in Somerset, England. One was a northward branch, opened in 1863, from the Salisbury to...
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the present Tesco roundabout. The Chard Canal was a tub boat canal built between 1835 and 1842. Chard Branch Line was created in 1860 to connect the...
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extend to Chard Junction as originally proposed. The line between Basingstoke, Salisbury and Exeter is not electrified. Beyond Exeter, the line continued...
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Colonel John Rouse Merriott Chard VC (21 December 1847 – 1 November 1897) was a British Army officer who received the Victoria Cross, the highest military...
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alongside the railway. The line passes the site of Creech St Michael railway station and the junction of the former Chard Branch Line.[page needed] Passenger...
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Somerset, England. It was the junction of a short branch line to Chard. It was opened in 1860 as Chard Road, and closed in 1966. An adjacent milk depot...
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Taunton Line which it then joins to complete the journey to Taunton, passing Creech St Michael and the former junction of the Chard branch line on the...
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These were the Yeovil branch line (1 October 1853), the West Somerset Railway to Watchet (31 March 1862), the Chard Branch Line (11 September 1866), and...
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Railway. The village had a Chalet-style station, known as Hatch, on the Chard Branch Line which closed in 1963. In 1962, following the Beeching Report, railway...
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The Chard Canal was a 13.5 miles (21.7 km) tub boat canal in Somerset, England, that ran from the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal at Creech St. Michael,...
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The Bristol and Exeter Railway line was opened through the village in 1842 and the junction of the Chard Branch Line was located here in 1860, but Creech...
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of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) and the A358 (Taunton to Chard and Axminster). The parish includes the hamlet of Sea. Ilminster is mentioned...
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Ilton (section Chard Canal)
helicopter training. Ilton Halt was a small railway station on the Chard Branch Line between 1928 and 1962. It included a platform of concrete construction...
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Bristol and Exeter Railway (redirect from Tiverton Branch Line)
line. It opened a number of branches within the general area it served: to Clevedon, Cheddar, Wells, Weston-super-Mare, Chard, Yeovil and Tiverton. The...
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Pen Mill (Heart of Wessex Line), Great Western Railway Chard branch line, former Great Western Railway line between Chard and Taunton Yeovil Railway...
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1928) Lyng Halt on the old Yeovil branch, and Durston and Creech St Michael railway stations on the Bristol to Exeter Line, but fast trains avoided the middle...
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area, two on the Seaton branch line, and one on the Chard branch line. Later on, some were used on the Lymington branch line, but by the end of 1867 all...
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trackbed of the old branch running off across the moors towards Athelney. A branch line, the Chard branch, from Taunton to Chard Central was opened on...
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in Great Britain Beeching cuts Morrison, Brian (ed.). "The Meldon Quarry Branch". Modern Railways Pictorial, 1986. Ian Allan. p. 16. ISBN 0-7110-1510-4...
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of election. There was a station on the Chard Branch Line that closed in 1962. The road bridge over the line is designated as a Grade II listed building...
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26 miles (24.56 km) single-track section between Chard Junction and Honiton. In the late 1980s the line found itself part of British Rail's Network SouthEast...
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first railway to serve Chard was the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) which opened Chard Road on its new Yeovil to Exeter line in 1860. On 8 May 1863...
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Portishead branch line for freight traffic on 7 January 2002. The period of canals as an important transport network was short-lived. Before the Chard Canal...
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it began to operate town services in Taunton when the town's single tram line closed due to increases in the cost of electricity. National's operations...
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The Charding Nullah, traditionally known as the Lhari stream and called Demchok River by China, is a small river that originates near the Charding La pass...
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with three semi-circular arches. Donyatt had a small halt along the Chard Branch Line just before Ilminster, which served the local community, it was constructed...
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difficult to defend, Chard ordered the defenders to abandon the perimeter around the hospital and withdraw to a smaller second line of defence by the storehouse...
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the B&ER main line to serve Creech St Michael. It cost £628 to build and was located to the east of the junction for the Chard branch. Lyng Halt was...
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was built using materials from the 1928 Ilton Halt formerly of the Chard branch line. The platform was reconstructed and became Cranmore West in 1978....
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the disputed region, with a Line of Actual Control between the two nations situated along the Charding Nullah. The Charding Nullah was mentioned by the...
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