Chard Junction railway station

Chard Junction
The site of the station in 1984
General information
Location	Tatworth, South Somerset England
Coordinates	50°50′21″N 2°56′12″W / 50.8393°N 2.9367°W / 50.8393; -2.9367
Platforms	3
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
1860	Opened as Chard Road
1863	Chard branch opened
1872	Renamed Chard Junction
1962	Chard branch closed
1966	Closed to passengers
1980	Milk depot closed
1982	New signal box built

Chard Junction railway station was situated on the London and South Western Railway’s West of England Main Line about 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of the village of Tatworth in Somerset, England. It was the junction of a short branch line to Chard. It was opened in 1860 as Chard Road, and closed in 1966. An adjacent milk depot was served by its own sidings from 1937 to 1980. Chard Junction signal box remained open to control Station Road level crossing and a passing loop on the long section of single track railway between Yeovil Junction and Pinhoe until March 2021, when control was passed to Basingstoke.

Although no longer a station nor a junction, the name Chard Junction is still in use to refer to the scattered houses and industrial buildings in the vicinity of the station site, on both sides of the border between Somerset and Dorset.^[1]