Station Name: SIDMOUTH[Source:
Nick Catford]
Sidmouth station and goods yard c1905. The platform canopy was later extended along the full length of the platform shown here. The engine shed, seen on the right, replaced the earlier shed that burned down in 1900. The small building with a chimney to the left of the canopy is the weigh office.
Copyright photo from John Alsop collection 1889 1:2,500 OS map shows the station layout as built. At this time there was no signal box, and the original engine shed is shown.
1933 1:2,500 OS map shows a number of changes. After the fire in 1900 the engine shed has been replaced with a smaller brick shed. The turntable was removed in 1932 as it was no longer required. The buildings on the right side of the yard have all been replaced with new buildings, and there is another new building between the two sidings. A goods office is now shown on the south end of the goods shed. A signal box is also shown at the entrance to the yard, The brick works to the west of the station has closed, and there has been considerable residential development to the east of the station.
1953 1:2,500 OS map shows little or no change to the station or goods yard although, by this date, the engine shed had closed. Sidmouth Gasworks has been built to the east of the line; this brought new business to the railway in the form of coal.
A passenger train has pulled into the longer platform road c1904. The substantial goods shed is seen on the right with the goods office in front of it. The signal box is seen in the distance behind the signal.
Copyright photo from John Alsop collection Sidmouth station looking towards the buffers c1910, before the canopy was extended. A passenger train is seen in the shorter platform road to the right.
Copyright photo from John Alsop collection Trains stand in both platform roads in August 1928. 80 has run round its train and is awaiting departure. 80 was a Southern Railway T1 class loco was built to a design by William Adams in 1889 at Nine Elms works of the LWSR. One of a class of 50 built in batches of ten, this loco was scrapped in 1936 and very few of this class survived into BR service; the final one, 30007, was withdrawn in 1951. None of the T1s was preserved though one boiler and smokebox has survived and is presently stored on the Avon Valley Railway; it can be seen on that railway's website under ‘Rolling Stock’, then ‘Locomotives’.
Copyright photo from Tony Harden collection A DMU waits to depart with a local service in the 1960s. DMUs first came to Sidmouth in November 1963, shortly after the branch was listed for closure by Beeching. Note that the canopy has
now been extended. Photo from John Mann collection Looking south towards the buffers under the extended station canopy c1960.
Copyright photo
from Tony Harden collection
The entrance to Sidmouth goods depot in the 1960s. The building in the centre is the weigh office (now without its chimney). The goods shed and goods office is seen to the right. The wooden building on the far right is probably a coal merchant's office. Click here to see a similar recent view.
Photo
from John Mann collection
Sidmouth station looking north in August 1963. The full length of the canopy extension is seen here. The goods shed and goods office are seen on the right.
Photo by Philip Tatt from 30937 Photographic Group
Sidmouth station forecourt in 1966.
Photo by Malcolm Bott Sidmouth station looking south in August 1969. The engine shed, seen on the right, closed in the 1930s and has been put to a number of different uses since closure. Note the new windows and door.
Photo
by Nick Catford
Sidmouth station seen from the entrance to the goods yard in August 1977.
Photo by Alan Young Sidmouth station forecourt in April 2012. Little has changed since the station closed 45 years earlier.
Photo by Chris Allen, reproduced from Geograph under creative commons licence Click here for more pictures of Sidmouth station
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