Daggons Road railway station

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Daggons Road
Daggons Road Station.jpg
General information
Location Alderholt, Dorset
England
Grid reference SU113126
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway
Pre-grouping London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping Southern Railway
Southern Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 January 1876Opened
4 May 1964Closed

Daggons Road was a railway station serving the village of Alderholt, in Dorset, to the south west of Fordingbridge, in Hampshire. It was one of many casualties of the mass closure of British railway lines in the 1960s and 1970s; the last service was on 2 May 1964. [1] It was on the Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway, which ran north–south along the River Avon just to the West of the New Forest, connecting Salisbury to the North and Poole to the south.

Today, the road through the centre of Alderholt village is still called Station Road, changing to Daggons Road at the point where the line crossed the road. A residential cul-de-sac named Station Yard (previously Daggons Road) occupies the land where the station once stood on the north side of Daggons Road, and there is another named Churchill Close opposite to the south. [2]

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Fordingbridge   British Rail
Southern Region

Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway
  Verwood

References

  1. Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 148. OCLC   931112387.
  2. "Disused Stations: Daggons Road". Disused Stations l. Retrieved 3 August 2022.

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