Castle Cary railway station handles more than 310,000 passengers a year, according to the Office of Rail and Road, serving the eponymous town and numerous settlements in central Somerset.
Great Western Railway (GWR), which operates the station, opened …
The car park of one of Somerset’s busiest railway stations will be closed for three months in the new year. Castle Cary[1] railway station handles more than 310,000 passengers a year, according to the Office of Rail and Road, serving the eponymous town…
Today (Tuesday 14 November) the Rail Safety and Standards Board[1] (RSSB) has launched its Sustainable Rail Blueprint.
The Board intends that the Blueprint will provide a new framework to support Great Britain’s rail industry to progress efficiently to…
A new temporary car park has been opened to rail users at Castle Cary[1] station.
Although the car park will deliver more than 190 additional car parking spaces, it is not yet fully complete and will need to close again in the New Year to enable contra…
Station manager Jordan Welsby said:”We’re committed to focusing on improving the railway, enabling more people to take advantage of the train services we offer, and we wanted customers to be able to use this new car park as soon as they could. “To do s…
A man has tragically died in a Somerset house fire, police have confirmed.[1]
Several fire crews, paramedics and police all rushed to the incident in Alhampton, near Castle Cary, yesterday (Monday, November 6). A fire engine became stuck in a ditch on …
Network Rail[1] is continuing with reliability improvement work, with the latest work set to take place between Yeovil Pen Mill[2] and Weymouth[3] from Monday the 16th to Friday the 20th of October. During the period of work, Great Western Railway[4] w…
Passengers travelling with Great Western Railway[1] are being advised of track upgrade work taking place from the 17th to the 22nd of September, which will affect journeys between Bristol[2] and Weston-super-Mare[3].
The work will see track replaced be…
Somerset councillors are “extremely concerned” by plans to close ticket offices at every railway station in England.
Train operators across England launched a consultation in early-July over plans to close all staffed ticket offices at every railway st…
Train travel will be disrupted on Saturday, July 29 due to an “extremely limited service”, Great Western Railway has confirmed. The RMT union has announced strike action that will affect rail services throughout the day. Most of the services to be hit …
Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats has told people in Somerton & Frome that it’s a choice between them and Conservatives as he launched the by-election campaign in Castle Cary yesterday.
Sir Ed Davey introduced the prospective parliamentary …
More than 60 trains are set to ferry a flood of Glastonbury Festival[1] passengers between London Paddington and Castle Cary next week, Great Western Railway (GWR) has revealed. The train firm is warning festival travellers to reserve tickets or they w…
What happens when 200,000 people travel to a destination normally home to around 10,000? Double-digit hour coach journeys, congested trains and queues of people thousands long, just to get to the gates. And that’s before any rail strikes happen, just l…