West Somerset Railway
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"The UK's longest standard gauge heritage railway."
Overview
Visitors to the West Somerset Railway will enjoy a 20-mile trip through stunning Somerset countryside and coastline, stopping at 10 stations. Once a country branch line of the old Great Western Railway it was closed in 1971, but quickly reopened as a private concern and is now home to a good number of steam and diesel locomotives. Today the railway carries over 200,000 passengers a year making it one of the largest attractions in South West England.
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Location
West Somerset Railway, The Railway Station, MINEHEAD, Somerset, TA24 5BG
About the area
Somerset remains rural and unspoiled, and ever popular areas to visit are the limestone and red sandstone Mendip Hills rising to over 1,000 feet, and by complete contrast, to the south and southwest, the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels. Another popular spot, the Quantocks, once the haunt of poets Coleridge and Wordsworth, are noted for their gentle slopes, heather-covered moorland expanses and red deer.
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