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Railway
Station, Bradford on Avon |
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| The Somerset and Weymouth Railway Company, had been formed in 1844 to create a link between Weymouth and Bathampton, with a branch line from this town to Staverton. Work had started on the line by 1847 and the following year the station at Bradford on Avon had been built. But the expense of creating the length of rail from Bathampton had been too much with its seven viaducts and two aqueducts. By 1850 the railway company was in liquidation and its assets taken over by Brunel`s Great Western Railway. Elizabeth Tackle in her print of the town in 1850 shows the strange site of the station buildings standing without any tracks between them. The line was finally completed and opened on February 2nd 1857. |
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Bath
Railway station by Bourne |
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| The opening of the line from Bathamption junction to Bradford on Avon in 1857. |
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| The scene in 1857 when the railway from Bath to Weymouth was finaly opened. This print shows the train passing through a tunnel under the Dundas Aqueduct |
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Plan
of Station and area around it in 1864 by Ashmead |
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| These are the contract drawings for Twyford station on Brunel`s Great Western Railway. It was the largest type of standard Wayside station. The same design was used at Bradford on Avon |
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Brunel designed five standard station office buildings. these two drawings are from the 1843 drawing for Culham on the Didcot - Oxford branch.Notice the similarities of details in the Bradford on Avon Station. |