The London and South Western Railway was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922. Originating as the London and Southampton Railway,its network extended to Dorchester and Weymouth,to Salisbury,Exeter and Plymouth,and to Padstow,Ilfracombe and Bude. It developed a network of routes in Hampshire,Surrey and Berkshire,including Portsmouth and Reading.
Yeovil Junction railway station is the busier,but less central,of two railway stations serving the town of Yeovil in England. The station is 2 miles (3.2 km) outside the town,in the village of Stoford. Although Yeovil is in Somerset,the station was in Dorset until 1991. It is 122 miles 48 chains (197.3 km) down the line from London Waterloo.
The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway,also known as the S&D,SDJR or S&DJR,was an English railway line connecting Bath and Bournemouth,with a branch from Evercreech Junction to Burnham-on-Sea and Bridgwater. Strictly speaking,the main line ran from Bath Junction to Broadstone,as the line between Broadstone and Bournemouth was owned by the London and South Western Railway,while the line between Bath Junction and Bath was owned by the Midland Railway.
The South West Main Line (SWML) is a 143-mile major railway line between Waterloo station in central London and Weymouth on the south coast of England. A predominantly passenger line,it serves many commuter areas including south western suburbs of London and the conurbations based on Southampton and Bournemouth. It runs through the counties of Surrey,Hampshire and Dorset. It forms the core of the network built by the London and South Western Railway,today mostly operated by South Western Railway. Network Rail refers to it as the South West Main Line.
Brockenhurst railway station serves the village of Brockenhurst in Hampshire,England. It is located on the South West Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth. It is also the junction of the Lymington Branch Line with the main line. It is 92 miles 66 chains (149.4 km) down the line from Waterloo. It is managed and served by South Western Railway and it is also served by CrossCountry trains.
St Denys railway station serves the St Denys and Portswood suburbs of Southampton in Hampshire,England. It is 77 miles 10 chains (124.1 km) down the line from London Waterloo.
Templecombe railway station serves the town of Templecombe in Somerset,England. It is situated on the West of England Main Line,112 miles 2 chains (180.3 km) down the line from London Waterloo. The main station opened in 1860 but a smaller station on the lower line opened in 1862. It was closed in 1966 but was reopened in 1983 following local community pressure. It is currently operated by South Western Railway.
Salisbury railway station serves the city of Salisbury in Wiltshire,England. It is 83 miles 43 chains (134.4 km) from London Waterloo on the West of England line to Exeter St Davids. This is crossed by the Wessex Main Line from Bristol Temple Meads to Southampton Central. The station is operated and served by South Western Railway (SWR),and is also served by Great Western Railway (GWR).
Weymouth railway station is the main railway station serving the town of Weymouth,Dorset,England. The station is the southern terminus of both the South West Main Line,142 miles 64 chains (229.8 km) down the line from London Waterloo,and the Heart of Wessex Line from Bristol Temple Meads and Gloucester,168 miles 63 chains (271.6 km) from London Paddington.
Fleet railway station serves the town of Fleet in Hampshire,England. It is situated on the South West Main Line,which has four tracks through the station. There are two platforms on the outer pair of tracks,which are served by trains between London Waterloo and Basingstoke and Southampton. The centre pair of tracks have no platforms and are used by through-services.
Johnstone railway station serves the town of Johnstone,Renfrewshire,Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line 10+3⁄4 miles (17.3 km) south west of Glasgow Central. Johnstone has no ticket gates but ticket checks take place occasionally.
Poole railway station is on the South West Main Line serving the town of Poole in Dorset,England. It is situated in the town centre next to Holes Bay. It is one of four stations in the Borough of Poole and is 113 miles 62 chains (183.1 km) down the main line from London Waterloo.
Ringwood is a closed railway station in the county of Hampshire,England which served the town of Ringwood. It lay on the former Southampton and Dorchester Railway,the original main line from a connection with the London and South Western Railway at Southampton through Brockenhurst to Dorchester.
The Scheidt &Bachmann Ticket XPress system is a passenger-operated self-service railway ticket issuing system developed and manufactured by the German systems development and production group Scheidt &Bachmann GmbH,based in the city of Mönchengladbach. Since the first trial installations in 2003,seven train operating companies (TOCs) in Great Britain have adopted the system as their main passenger-operated ticket vending method,while four others have installed machines at certain stations on their networks. More than 1,500 machines are in place across the country,and more than 850 stations have one or more. Machines can accept cash and/or payment cards and can sell most National Rail tickets.
The Wilts,Somerset and Weymouth Railway (WS&WR) was an early railway company in south-western England. It obtained Parliamentary powers in 1845 to build a railway from near Chippenham in Wiltshire,southward to Salisbury and Weymouth in Dorset. It opened the first part of the network but found it impossible to raise further money and sold its line to the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1850.
The Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway was a railway company,that built a line from a junction near Salisbury to another near West Moors on the Ringwood to Wimborne line. It ran through the counties of Wiltshire,Hampshire and Dorset in England. It opened the line in 1866,and was worked by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR).
The Southampton and Dorchester Railway was an English railway company formed to join Southampton in Hampshire with Dorchester in Dorset,with hopes of forming part of a route from London to Exeter. It received Parliamentary authority in 1845 and opened in 1847. It was promoted by Charles Castleman of Wimborne Minster,and became known as Castleman's Corkscrew because of the meandering route it followed.
Wimborne was a railway station in Wimborne Minster in the county of Dorset in England. Open from 1 June 1847 to 2 May 1977,it was sited just north of the River Stour in what is still Station Road. Built for the Southampton and Dorchester Railway,the station was operated from the start by the London and South Western Railway,which took over ownership in 1848. It was then operated by the Southern Railway (1923–47) and from 1948 by the Southern Region of British Railways which traded as British Rail from 1965.
The Ringwood,Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway was a railway company to link Christchurch and Bournemouth,England,to the London and South Western Railway's Southampton and Dorchester line at Ringwood. The RC&BR opened in 1862 from Christchurch to Ringwood,and was extended to Bournemouth in 1870,sharing in the growing popularity of the town. However the route was circuitous,and the London and South Western Railway opened a shorter route between Brockenhurst and Christchurch via Sway in 1888,making the Ringwood to Christchurch section a branch line.
The Salisbury branch line of the Great Western Railway from Westbury to Salisbury in Wiltshire,England,was completed in 1856. Most of the smaller stations were closed in 1955 but the line remains in use as part of the Wessex Main Line.
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