Durston railway station

† Moved from 124-00 in 1893
§ via Weston-super-Mare

There are 22 disused railway stations in the 75 miles (121 km) between Bristol Temple Meads and Exeter St Davids, of which 12 can be recognised from passing trains. Most were closed in the 1960s but four of them, especially around Weston-super-Mare, were replaced by stations on new sites. Only 13 stations remain open on the line today, but there have been proposals to reopen stations at Cullompton and Wellington.

The route was opened by the Bristol and Exeter Railway in stages between 1841 and 1844. This company was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway in 1876 which, in turn, was nationalised into British Railways in 1948. It is now owned by Network Rail.

Apart from the temporary station at Beam Bridge that was only used for a year, the earliest closures were in the Weston-super-Mare area as new facilities were provided for the traffic to this town that was much greater than predicted when the line was planned. The majority of the remaining closures occurred following Dr Beeching's Reshaping of British Railways report of 1963. The most recent closure was Tiverton Junction which was replaced by a new station at Tiverton Parkway on a site closer to Junction 27 of the M5 motorway, where the North Devon Relief Road joins it.

This station was situated on the climb from Bristol up to Flax Bourton Tunnel. It was in the valley below Long Ashton, at the place where today there is a flyover for the A370 road. It was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1926 Originally named Long Ashton Platform, the suffix was dropped on 23 September 1929, and the station was closed on 6 October 1941. There are no visible remains. The University of Bristol has plans to open a new station at Long Ashton, west of the old station, as part of its Fenswood Farm development.

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