Cole (for Bruton) railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Railway in South Somerset, serving the village of Cole, which is now virtually joined to the village of Pitcombe and the small town of Bruton.
Cole was the station where the Dorset Central Railway line from Templecombe met the Somerset Central Railway line from Glastonbury and Street railway station in 1862. Later that year the two companies combined to form the Somerset and Dorset Railway.
Just north of the station the line crossed the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway although the two railways were not connected here.
Cole station was closed with the railway in the Beeching cuts in 1966.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wincanton |
Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway |
Evercreech Junction |
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—Lester Cole (1904–1985)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
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—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)