Stourpaine and Durweston railway station
Encyclopedia
Stourpaine & Durweston Halt was a station in the English county of Dorset
. It was located between Shillingstone and Blandford Forum on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
. The station consisted of a small concrete platform and shelter.
. It became part of the Southern Region of British Railways when the railways were nationalised in 1947. The halt was closed in 1956 as part of an economy campaign. Trains continued to pass the site until the S&DJR closed in 1966. The site is now hidden in trees off the A350 Blandford to Shaftesbury road, near the junction with the A357.
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
. It was located between Shillingstone and Blandford Forum on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway – almost always referred to as "the S&D" – was an English railway line connecting Bath in north east Somerset and Bournemouth now in south east Dorset but then in Hampshire...
. The station consisted of a small concrete platform and shelter.
History
The station was opened on 9 July 1928 by the Southern RailwaySouthern Railway (Great Britain)
The Southern Railway was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping. It linked London with the Channel ports, South West England, South coast resorts and Kent...
. It became part of the Southern Region of British Railways when the railways were nationalised in 1947. The halt was closed in 1956 as part of an economy campaign. Trains continued to pass the site until the S&DJR closed in 1966. The site is now hidden in trees off the A350 Blandford to Shaftesbury road, near the junction with the A357.