[1] Somerton station opened to the public on 2 July 1906,[2] in a cutting adjoining the town centre.

The station stopped handling passenger services on 10 September 1962[3] but continued to serve freight traffic until closing altogether on 6 July 1964.

In recent times there have been various aspirations to re-open the station by local people, including former local MP David Heath[5] - but until that may happen, the only real sign of the station today is a 350-metre (1,150 ft)-long siding which had been built originally to let goods trains be overtaken.

The station lay just behind the West Street girder bridge and ran all the way down to the Perry Hill area of the town.

Up until the mid-1980s when the original signal box was demolished, a few station huts still stood on the site,[7] but these have all ceased to exist.