Symonds Yat railway station

LocationSymonds Yat, Herefordshire
England

Coordinates51°50′18″N 2°38′19″W / 51.8384°N 2.6387°W / 51.8384; -2.6387

Grid referenceSO561157

Platforms2

Symonds Yat
Symonds Yat Tunnel with train emerging 1895
General information
Location	Symonds Yat, Herefordshire England
Coordinates	51°50′18″N 2°38′19″W / 51.8384°N 2.6387°W / 51.8384; -2.6387
Grid reference	SO561157
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Ross and Monmouth Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
4 August 1873	Opened
5 January 1959	Closed
Location

Symonds Yat railway station is a disused railway station on the Ross and Monmouth Railway constructed on the banks of the River Wye in Symonds Yat East.

v t e Ross and Monmouth Railway
Legend
mi-ch Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway 0-00 Ross-on-Wye Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway 3-12 Walford Halt 4-10 Kerne Bridge River Wye Lydbrook tunnel River Wye Severn and Wye Railway 5-40 Lydbrook Junction Symonds Yat tunnel 7-50 Symonds Yat Heref, England Mon, Wales border 10-59 Hadnock Halt 12-31 Monmouth Mayhill Wye Valley Railway and Coleford Railway River Wye 13-10 Monmouth Troy Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway

Opened in 1873, it consisted of two platforms and a timber station building on the down platform, it closed in 1959 with the closure of the line.^[1][2] The railways were at first used as a quick means of bringing the boats back from Chepstow.^[3]

A camping coach was positioned here by the Western Region from 1953 to 1958; an early form of self-catering accommodation which used converted redundant railway carriages for occupation by holidaymakers who could arrive and depart by train.^[4] Today the station site has long been levelled but the foundations of the station building and platforms remain and the area now forms a car parking area for a local hotel inn.