Looking north from the footbridge at Highbridge and Burnham railway staiton. The present station is a small station served by local trains between Weston-super-Mare and Taunton is a shadow of its former existence as an important junction station between the Great Western and Somerset & Dorset Joint railways. <br>
The latter station, the site of which was on the right of this photograph, was closed along with the rest of the railway in the 1960s. The reason platform 1 on the right is significantly shorter is than platform 2 is that the SDJR route to Burnham-on-Sea crossed the Great Western tracks at an acute angle here, coming in from the bottom right, sharing the road bridge and then heading off to the left.
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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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