Weston-super-Mare or Taunton and Exeter also pass through non-stop. |- style="text-align: center;" | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" style="background:#;" | | Great Western Railway(Severn Beach – Weston-super-Mare) | rowspan="4" style="background:#;" | | |- style="text-align: center;" | Great Western Railway(Cardiff Central – Penzance) | |- style="text-align: center;" | rowspan="2" | Great Western Railway(London Paddington – Taunton) | |- style="text-align: center;" | History The line through Worle saw its first use on 14 June 1841, when the first section of the Bristol and Exeter Railway's (B&ER) main line between Bristol and was opened. The line, engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was built as broad-gauge but was reconstructed as a mixed-gauge line to accommodate local -gauge traffic by 1 June 1875. Services were operated by the Great Western Railway (GWR) on behalf of the B&ER until 1 May 1849. The B&ER then took over its own workings until the company was amalgamated into the GWR on 1 January 1876. Broad-gauge trains ceased operation on 20 May 1892. When the railways were nationalised by the Transport Act 1947, the line became part of the Western Region of British Railways. The modern Worle railway station is the fourth station to serve Worle. The first station, east of the modern station, was opened in 1841 as Banwell and was known as Worle from 1869 to 1884, then as Puxton and Worle from 1922 until closure in 1964. From 1884 to 1922, there was a station called Worle on the loop line to , west of the modern station. There was also a station on the nearby Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Light Railway, which was known as Worle from 1897 to 1913, then as Worle (Moor Lane) until 1917, and as Worle Town until closure in 1940. The station at Worle was developed as a joint initiative between British Rail and Avon County Council. It cost £700,000 and was built using lightweight construction materials due to being sited on marshy ground. The station was opened on 24 September 1990 by Councillor Betty Perry, the chair of Avon Council. The first train was a westbound Regional Railways service, operated by Sprinter DMU 150270. All services were local ones – no scheduled intercity services would call at Worle until 2007. Upon the privatisation of British Rail in 1997, services were franchised to Wales & West, which was in turn succeeded in 2001 by Wessex Trains, an arm of National Express.