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Wideatts Road, CHEDDAR, BS27 3AT

A view north west along the Strawberry Line path NCN26 as it runs behind houses on Wideatts Road in Cheddar. The path here has a gravel surface which is loose and uneven in places. The path is narrow all the way along this section between Valley Line Industrial Estate and Lower New Road. There are problems with accessibility at Valley Line Industrial Estate with a metal barrier and a kerb to negotiate.

Certainly not the best part of the path as it approaches the site of the former Cheddar Station.

The Strawberry Line runs to the right of the gate

A narrow section of the Strawberry Line path along the side of an industrial site on the site of the former railway station at Cheddar.

A view east along the Strawberry Line path NCN26 from under the Lower New Road Bridge in Cheddar. The path narrows from here to its end at Valley Line Industrial Estate, and the path surface changes here at the concrete lip in the photograph, going from a packed grit surface to a loose gravel path. The end of the path at Valley Line Industrial Estate has a large metal barrier and a kerb to access the road.

BR Standard 2-6-2T 82037 is at the head of the mid-afternoon train from Yatton (depart 2.45pm) to Witham on the GWR's west of England main line. The leisurely timetable was intended to allow time for the loading & unloading of parcels but it gave the photographer the opportunity to leave the train and record the scene. Withdrawal of the passenger service came 4 months later; the last trains ran on 7th September 1963. Goods traffic from Witham as far as Cheddar lasted for a few more years, ending in April 1969. Cheddar station was the only one on the line to have an overall roof - a facility denied to that at Wells, surely a more important source of traffic.