Alex Coomber
Colliers Way. Bristol to Frome via Radstock. Opened between 1854 and 1873. Closed in 1959. Bristol Temple Meads, Brislington, Whitchurch Halt, Pensford, Clutton, Hallatrow, Farrington Gurney Halt, Midsomer Norton & Welton, Radstock West, Mells Road and Frome. Starting life as a colliery railway. The Bristol to Frome Line was opened throughout in 1873. It's lifeblood was always coal mined in the North Somerset Coalfield. But the route also had a fairly regular Passenger Service until it was drastically cut in the late 1950s. Although closing to passengers in 1959. Parts of the line continued to carry coal until the last colliery closed in 1973. Today. The section from Radstock to Great Elm on the western outskirts of Frome is a footpath and cycleway that forms part of Colliers Way.
