Crowcombe Heathfield, Somerset — Station, View 1
The passing loop in the Quantock foothills, looking to Minehead
Crowcombe Heathfield, Somerset — Station, View 1
West Somerset Railway — Crowcombe Heathfield station · Crowcombe, Somerset, United Kingdom
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 51.10077, -3.23339
- Location
- Crowcombe, Somerset, United Kingdom
- Railroad
West Somerset Railway — Crowcombe Heathfield station
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Train types
Passenger trains past this camera
No official timetable file is published for this line — see the journey guide for dates and times.
About this cam
Railcam UK's first Crowcombe Heathfield camera looks along the West Somerset Railway towards Dunster and Minehead, from the restored station in the Quantock foothills.
The West Somerset Railway runs 20 miles from Bishops Lydeard to Minehead, the longest standard-gauge heritage line in England, and Crowcombe Heathfield is its most rural stop — a restored station with a passing loop, some way from the village it names.
Railcam UK operates eleven cameras along the line in partnership with the railway. The operator lists them explicitly: "Minehead (2 cameras), Blue Anchor (2 cameras), Watchet (2 cameras), Williton (2 cameras), Crowcombe Heathfield (2 cameras), Bishops Lydeard." This is the first of the two at Crowcombe, and the operator states it is "pointing towards Dunster and Minehead".
The stream overlay carries the railway's own anniversary line, "1976 - 2026 50 YEARS OF PRESERVATION".
What to watch for
Crossing moves. Crowcombe Heathfield has a passing loop, so on a two-train timetable this is where the up and down services meet — the West Somerset's GWR-liveried tank engines and its heritage diesels, with the signal box and semaphores worked by hand. Camera 2, on the same platform, gives the opposing view.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Passenger station
- Traffic
- Heritage
- Sound
- Video only, no audio
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- September 8, 2026
Filmed location
The place this camera films is documented on Spotatrain — traffic levels, best angles, and visiting info (Epic Journey):
Explore around Crowcombe
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- Crowcombe Heathfield, Somerset — Station, View 2 4 m
- Bishops Lydeard, Somerset — West Somerset Railway 5.8 km
- Santa Express — West Somerset Railway 5.9 km
- Williton, Somerset — West Somerset Railway, Camera 2 9.0 km
- Williton, Somerset — West Somerset Railway, Camera 1 9.0 km
- Watchet, Somerset — West Somerset Railway, Camera 1 11 km
- Watchet, Somerset — West Somerset Railway, Camera 2 11 km
- Blue Anchor, Somerset — West Somerset, View 2 15 km
- Blue Anchor, Somerset — West Somerset, View 1 15 km
- Minehead, Somerset — Seaward Crossing 20 km
- Minehead, Somerset — West Somerset Railway Terminus 20 km







