The eastern (platform 1) side of the footbridge at Higbridge & Burnham station has an unusual design. The reason for this is that it dates from when it was a junction station between the suriving north-south Great Western station and the northwest-southeast Somerset & Dorset Joint railway that met at an acute angle. The S&D route route to Burnham-on-Sea crossed the Great Western lines immediately north of the latter's platforms, and the bridge would have continued over these tracks to the southwest-bound platform and north-side bays.
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Photo by <a href="mailto:cmckenna@sucs.org?subject=rail-photo at railfaneurope.net">Chris McKenna</a> 16/11/2006.<br>
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