Blue Anchor Station - West Somerset Railway, UK

A vintage diesel multiple unit sits at the platform at Blue Anchor station on the West Somerset Railway, with a uniformed stationmaster on the platform and the Exmoor hills rising behind. The camera points towards Dunster and Minehead along one of the longest heritage railways in Britain, and trains pass through regularly throughout the operating day.

The West Somerset Railway runs 22 miles between Bishops Lydeard and Minehead along the Somerset coast, preserved and operated by volunteers since 1976. This year marks the railway's 50th anniversary of preservation, as noted in the camera overlay. Blue Anchor is a small intermediate station right on the seafront where the line runs directly alongside the Bristol Channel beach.

The Railcam network covers eleven cameras across the railway's stations including Minehead, Watchet, Williton, Crowcombe Heathfield, and Bishops Lydeard, making it one of the most comprehensively covered heritage railways on any live platform.

Did You Know? The West Somerset Railway follows the route of the original Minehead Branch, which was built by the Great Western Railway and opened in 1874. When British Railways closed the line in 1971, local campaigners fought to preserve it and reopened it as a heritage operation five years later. At 22 miles it remains the longest standard gauge heritage railway in England.

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