Steaming to Highbridge
Mar 30th, 2008 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Personal Columns“When I retire”, I said at teatime, “I want to visit all 180 Somerset stations”.
“Oh, joy”, muttered the good lady of the house, “I suppose you’ll want a flask of tea”.
“Yes”, I said, “and a rug for having picnics.”
Being honest, there aren’t 180 stations in Somerset; there are only thirty and eleven of those are on a railway preservation trust’s line, but there once were. The three Somerset counties – Somerset, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset – had180 stations on a web of different …