Binegar railway station
Binegar railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway in the county of Somerset in England. Opened on 20 July 1874, the station consisted of two platforms, with a building on the down platform. There was a substantial goods yard with two sheds and sidings, controlled from a 24 lever signal box. Being the first station north of the line's summit at Masbury Binegar was also where locomotives used as banking engines on north-bound trains would drop off and cross the line ready to return south.
The station closed to goods in 1963: passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed on 7 March 1966.Accident
There were several fatalities in two accidents near this station in the 1880s.The site is now occupied by a large private house.
