The station on the York to Beverley railway line was opened in 1847 and closed in 1965 as part of the Beeching cuts.
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The next day she heard of Beeching's appointment to the British Transport Commission overlooking British Rail.
The ground, as the name suggests, was once close to the town's railway station, situated on the Caledonian Railway's main line from Aberdeen to Glasgow and London, but this station was closed in 1968 as part of the Beeching cuts.
The Portishead Railway was closed in the Beeching Axe but was relaid between 2000–2002 as far as the Royal Portbury Dock with a Strategic Rail Authority rail-freight grant.