 It was on the Cheddar Valley line , a railway line that was opened in 1869 and closed in 1963 . It became known as The Strawberry Line because of the large volume of locally @-@ grown strawberries that it carried . It ran from Yatton railway station through Cheddar to Wells ( Tucker Street ) railway station and joined the East Somerset Railway to make a through route via Shepton Mallet ( High Street ) railway station to Witham . Sections of the now @-@ disused railway have been opened as the Strawberry Line Trail , which currently runs from Yatton to Cheddar . The Cheddar Valley line survived until the " Beeching Axe " . Towards the end of its life there were so few passengers that diesel railcars were sometimes used . The Cheddar branch closed to passengers on 9 September 1963 and to goods in 1964 . The line closed in the 1960s , when it became part of the Cheddar Valley Railway Nature Reserve , and part of the National Cycle Network route 26 . The cycle route also intersects with the West Mendip Way and various other footpaths . 
