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    Storms close ‘last’ section of S&D in regular use

    Nov 19, 2019 3 minutes
    By John Smith

    NEARLY 150 years after the line was opened, the last surviving part of the original Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway main line – and the legendary system’s westernmost extremity – has been taken out of public use.

    Following extensive damage suffered by gale-force storms in the Bristol Channel in early January, Sedgemoor District Council has ordered emergency repairs to the roadway on Burnham-on-Sea’s jetty – which once carried trains to waiting ships parked alongside.

    The jetty was 900ft long, built by the Somerset Central Railway (which later became the Somerset

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