Yeovil Junction

Yeovil Junction is a station on the railway line from London, Waterloo to Exeter.

Yeovil Junction is one of two stations serving Yeovil. It is located in the village of Stoford just outside the town. There is a bus route that connects the station to Yeovil proper and the nearby village of Barwick.

As its name suggests, the station was formerly a junction, with the line that served the now defunct station of Yeovil Town. There is still a junction of tracks at this point, enabling trains to be switched onto the line from Castle Cary to Weymouth (which also has a station at Yeovil, Yeovil Pen Mill). However, this routing is now only used as an emergency diversion, typically when the direct route from Exeter to Castle Cary is obstructed by engineering works or flooding in the Exe valley.