Bacton railway station

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.

Bacton
Site of Bacton railway station in 1961
General information
Location	Bacton, Herefordshire England
Coordinates	51.9874°N 2.9018°W / 51.9874; -2.9018
Grid reference	SO380325
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Golden Valley Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1 September 1881	Station opens as Bacton Road
22 October 1883	Station closes
17 November 1883	Station reopens
2 July 1885	Station closes
19 August 1885	Station reopens
20 April 1898	Station closes
1 May 1901	Station reopens
1 July 1903	Station renamed Bacton
15 December 1941	Station closes

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