Abbotsbury | |
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General information | |
Location | Abbotsbury, West Dorset England |
Coordinates | 50°39′57″N2°35′29″W / 50.66586°N 2.59139°W |
Platforms | 1 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Abbotsbury Railway |
Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
Post-grouping | Great Western Railway Western Region of British Railways |
Key dates | |
9 November 1885 | Station opens |
1 December 1952 | Station closes |
Abbotsbury was the terminus of the Abbotsbury branch railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. Serving the village of Abbotsbury, it was sited amid fields to the east of the village on the Weymouth to Abbotsbury road, because the railway could not buy the land needed to build the station nearer to the village centre. Plans for westward expansion came to nothing and led to the railway petering out in a shallow cutting to the west of the station.
Opened by the Abbotsbury Railway Company in 1885, it was operated from the start by the Great Western Railway. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Portesham Line and station closed | Great Western Railway Abbotsbury branch railway | Terminus |
A typical William Clarke stone building served the single platform. The station also had a signal box and engine shed, and although neither of these operated for long, the ruins of the engine shed remained until closure. The goods shed however functioned for the life of the branch.
The station closed with the branch in 1952.
The station building has now been replaced with a private dwelling although the platform remains underneath the length of the building.
The station makes short appearances in the Powell and Pressburger film The Small Back Room .
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