Blue Anchor Station - news and needs.

22/06/2026

NCB 0-6-0T No. 6 steams out of Blue Anchor back to Minehead with a mixed freight train…

22/06/2026

0-6-0T NCB No. 6 prepares to
Leave Blue Anchor station with a Silver level Steam Engineman’s Course train
- just ahead of a fierce thunder storm which erupted a short time later…

22/06/2026

Urgent notice:

Due to the current weather warning regarding the area experiencing extreme heat over the coming days, we have taken the decision to cancel services from 23rd June – 25th June 2026 inclusive.

Staff & Customer welfare is paramount along with protection of our infrastructure and it is felt the risk in the extreme heats forecast, is too high for us to do this.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

The current plan is that services will resume on Saturday 27th June 2026 onwards.

If you have pre-booked tickets, you will be contacted via email with options available to you.

At present, Minehead station shop and café will be open on the above dates between 10.00 and 15.30, however this will be monitored over the coming days.

We look forward to welcoming you to the West Somerset Railway once temperatures reach a safer level.

We shall keep our social media and website as up to date as possible throughout the week.

21/06/2026

Young evacuees were housed at Chapel Cleeve near Blue Anchor at the Chapel Cleeve Nursery, then the 'Stephen S Wise Home' under American Aid for British evacuees. These pictures show the children having fun in the grounds (Imperial War Museum Collection)...

21/06/2026

We imply that our mannequin 'Annie', and the other children with her, were evacuated to the area from Swindon during the war. In fact, many children really were evacuated to West Somerset, arriving at many of our stations. Watchet station still has the text of the original announcement played as children stepped off the evacuation trains. The picture below show evacuees having just arrived at Williton station as part of Operation Pied Piper...

20/06/2026

The West Somerset Railway family sends its condolences and sympathy to the victims and families of those involved in yesterday's mainline railway incident. We are thinking of you all.

20/06/2026

7802 Bradley Manor leads an up train, tender first, into Blue Anchor station…

17/06/2026

As the DMU waits in the up platform, 7802 Bradley Manor leaves Blue Anchor with a down train to Minehead…

17/06/2026

As 7802 Bradley Manor waits at the down platform, the Class 115/117 hybrid DMU arrives with the up service to Watchet…

16/06/2026

The Blue Anchor lavender bushes have attracted some beautiful Cinnebar moths…