A ride on the West Somerset Railway aboard the 10.15 Bishops Lydeard to Minehead, Dunster Station.
A fine example of a small country station, Dunster station is listed Grade II, as is the former goods shed opposite the platform. The station building may well look familiar to those with a model railway as for many years Hornby produced a 4mm scale model of it - a beautifully restored example is displayed in the station. The goods yard is now home to the West Somerset Railway’s Permanent Way department and there you may see supplies of track materials and equipment for maintaining the track, bridges, stations and buildings on the railway. Between the wars the parkland below Dunster Castle included a polo ground and the ponies arrived by train and the horse-boxes were unloaded in the goods yard. Close by is the site of the medieval port of Dunster, long since silted up.
A ride on the West Somerset Railway aboard the 10.15 Bishops Lydeard to Minehead, Dunster Station.
A fine example of a small country station, Dunster station is listed Grade II, as is the former goods shed opposite the platform. The station building may well look familiar to those with a model railway as for many years Hornby produced a 4mm scale model of it - a beautifully restored example is displayed in the station. The goods yard is now home to the West Somerset Railway’s Permanent Way department and there you may see supplies of track materials and equipment for maintaining the track, bridges, stations and buildings on the railway. Between the wars the parkland below Dunster Castle included a polo ground and the ponies arrived by train and the horse-boxes were unloaded in the goods yard. Close by is the site of the medieval port of Dunster, long since silted up.