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Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Minehead Museum
Phone:
+44 1643 702624

Address:
The Avenue | In The Beeches Hotel, Minehead TA24 5AP, England

The West Somerset Railway is a 22.75-mile heritage railway line in Somerset, England. The freehold of the line and stations is owned by Somerset County Council; the railway is leased to and operated by West Somerset Railway plc ; which is supported and minority-owned by charitable trust the West Somerset Railway Association and the West Somerset Steam Railway Trust . The WSR plc operates services using both heritage steam and diesel trains. It originally opened in 1862 between Taunton and Watchet. In 1874 it was extended from Watchet to Minehead by the Minehead Railway. Although just a single line, improvements were needed in the first half of the twentieth century to accommodate the significant number of tourists that wished to travel to the Somerset coast. The line was closed by British Rail in 1971 and reopened in 1976 as a heritage line. It is the longest standard gauge independent heritage railway in the United Kingdom. Services normally operate over just the 20.5 miles between Minehead and Bishops Lydeard. During special events some trains continue a further two miles to Norton Fitzwarren where a connection to Network Rail allows occasional through trains to operate onto the national network.
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