Railway Engineering Research Paper

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Railway

Engineering Report: Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway, Bath Extension

Wellow-Midford-Bath Park

Background Information on Wellow Station (from Clapcott)

Open 20 July 1874

Built close to the village

Two platforms, with main station on upper platform

Area controlled by 18 lever signal box at East end of down platform, adjacent to the level crossing

Closed to goods traffic 10 June 1963

Closed to passenger traffic 7 March 1966

Part of the Somerset & Dorset Bath Extension

Signal box was "jointly owned by the London & South Western and Midland Railways, although it is clear that the former c
arried out most of the signaling work" (The Signal Box)

Current Issues

Trakbed missing in the majority of route from Wellow to Bath

Trakbed needs to be repurhased; land has been privatized

Severe disrepair in parts where traks still exist

Corrosion is severe in all omponents (rail web, base plate)

Base plates have been ompromised nearly the whole way

Corroded rail foot

Defetive, missing, dry or orroded joints

Headwear, rail heads nearly nonexistent

Diversion of eletrial omponents; preventing signaling in urrent state

Land use issues; large swathes have been subsumed by loal development

Irregularities in land surfae due.....

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