Symonds Yat | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Symonds Yat, Herefordshire |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 51.8384°N -2.6387°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Platforms: | 2 |
Pregroup: | Ross and Monmouth Railway |
Postgroup: | Great Western Railway |
Years: | 4 August 1873 |
Events: | Opened |
Years1: | 5 January 1959 |
Events1: | Closed |
Symonds Yat railway station is a disused railway station on the Ross and Monmouth Railway constructed on the banks of the River Wye in Symonds Yat East.
Opened in 1873, it consisted of two platforms and a timber station building on the down platform, it closed in 1959 with the closure of the line.[1] The railways were at first used as a quick means of bringing the boats back from Chepstow.[2]
A camping coach was positioned here by the Western Region from 1953 to 1958; an early form of self-catering accommodation which used converted redundant railway carriages for occupation by holidaymakers who could arrive and depart by train.[3] Today the station site has long been levelled but the foundations of the station building and platforms remain and the area now forms a car parking area for a local hotel inn.