This standard-gauge line would run along the street from the Boulevard to Ashcombe Road in Weston-super-Mare and then off-road (apart from numerous level crossings) from there to Portishead.

[2][3] Building of the Weston-super-Mare to Clevedon section of the tramway began in 1887, but progress was slow due to many legal and financial problems.

The section from Ashcombe Road to Clevedon was formally inspected by the Board of Trade on 26 August 1897 but not allowed to open.

[2] Instead of the extension to the Boulevard, the Tramway provided horse buses from Ashcombe Road to Birnbeck Pier and the Sanatorium for a few years.

[8] In 1909, Cuthbert Heath, the managing director of the Excess Insurance Company, petitioned for the railway to enter receivership.

Steam locomotives were retained, especially for the trains from Clevedon to Portishead which conveyed heavy traffic from quarries in the area.

Receipts were reducing too, and from 1935 some of the traffic from Black Rock Quarry (the largest freight forwarder on the line) was transferred to road haulage.

[9] Shortly after this the Great Western Railway (GWR) purchased the line (but not the land) to use to store wagons loaded with coal that could not be delivered due to the war.

[10] Some wagons were stored in various sidings at the Weston-super-Mare end of the line but were moved back across the river in case of bombing.

The WC&PR rolling stock was all taken to Swindon Works in August 1940 but was scrapped except for two Terriers which were overhauled and retained by the GWR.

The town councils at Weston-super-Mare and Clevedon wanted it for roads and houses so paid the £3,750 value of the land to the Bank of England.

[12] The only notable engineering work was the bridge across the River Yeo near Wick St. Lawrence, which was 240 feet (73 m) long with cast iron piers supporting steel lattice girders.

There were also several sidings handling freight traffic: A short branch was opened in 1915 at Wick St. Lawrence to serve a jetty which the railway company built on the River Yeo.

There was a loop on the branch from which a single line ran out onto the jetty which had a concrete platform supported by wooden piles.

[13] Public goods facilities in Clevedon were provided at Parnell Road where there was a siding with a platform made from old wagon underframes.

[20] The 1892 Act of Parliament to allow completion of the line also authorised connections to be built to the GWR at both Portishead and Weston-Super-Mare.

It was hoped that coal traffic could be taken to the tramway company's depot and a nearby pottery, while tram cars from the sea front could reach the WC&PR.

These were bogie carriages, 49 feet 3 inches (15.01 m) long over their buffers with American-style open end platforms and both first and second class seating.

They had been built by the Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works for the Argentine Republic Railway but the sale to that company was never completed.

[26] An additional coach was later bought from the Great Central Railway, a small four-wheel vehicle used as a 'smoking car' during the summer.

Much of the route of the track bed survives, a small part of which can be walked on Weston Moor reserve in the Gordano Valley.