Features
The original stations were in most cases built to a standard but distinctive design by the architect William Clarke, featuring large canopies and three tall chimneys. Clarke designed stations on other "minor" Great Western satellite railways.
The B&NSR was one of the railways carried on the Midford viaducts (see photograph above). This was an unusual 'bridge over a bridge' construction where the B&NSR traversed a river valley on a viaduct which passed under the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway which crossed the same valley on an almost perpendicular course on a taller viaduct.
The biggest civil engineering project on the line was the Pensford Viaduct over the River Chew. The viaduct is 995 feet long, reaches a maximum height of 95 feet to rail level and consists of sixteen arches and is now a Grade II listed structure.
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