The Somerset & Dorset Railway, known as the S&D (said to
also stand for 'Slow and Dirty' or 'Serene and Delightful'), ran
from Bath across the Mendip hills to Bournemouth on the south
coast. Never a high-speed line, the main traffic for the Somerset
& Dorset during the winter months was freight and local
passenger traffic. In the summer, however, there was heavy traffic
as Saturday holiday services from the northern industrial towns
passed along the line. In 1962, John Betjeman travelled along the
Somerset & Dorset from Evercreech Junction to Highbridge and
Burnham-on-Sea, making a BBC documentary called Branch Line
Railway, in which he pleaded for the line to be spared from the
Beeching cuts. However, despite an active campaign to save it, and
the promise by the new Labour government that there would be no
more railway cutbacks, on 7 March 1966 the whole line was closed.
2016 will see the fiftieth anniversary of the closure of this
much-mourned railway; here in this well-illustrated book, the
history of the line is preserved.
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