History
The station was opened by the Great Western Railway as part of the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth route on 2 February 1854. The G.W.R. opened a locomotive depot at the station in September 1856, which operated until January 1959, when it was closed and the locomotives transferred to Yeovil Town depot.
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