Melcombe Regis railway station

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Melcombe Regis
Melcombe Regis 01.jpg
The site of the station road before construction on this site
General information
Location Melcombe Regis, Dorset
England
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Weymouth and Portland Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
British Railways (Southern Region)
Key dates
30 May 1909 (1909-05-30)Opened
3 March 1952Closed to passengers
12 September 1959 (1959-09-12)Closed

Melcombe Regis was a station on the Portland Branch Railway in the English county of Dorset. Opened in April 1909, it was sited at the north end of the bridge over Radipole Lake. The station was built to enable Portland branch passengers to go to Weymouth without the need for the branch train to reverse to enter Weymouth railway station. The branch junction was to the north of Weymouth station and faced Dorchester. The station was closed officially, along with the branch, on 3 March 1952. However, the station continued to be used for overflow from the adjacent Weymouth station, particularly on summer Saturdays: regularly until 12 September 1959 and irregularly for a while after that.

Contents

Operated by the Great Western Railway, the station was placed in the Western Region when the railways were nationalised in 1948.

Goods trains continued to pass the site on their way to the Admiralty sites on Portland until 1965.

The site today

The last remains were removed in 2000 and the site is now under the relief road at the north end of Swannery Bridge near a car park.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Terminus
Line and station closed
Through trains Radipole or Weymouth (via reversal)
  GWR and LSWR
Portland Branch Railway
  Westham Halt
Line and station closed

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