Toller railway station

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Toller
Toller 1.JPG
The former Toller station building now rebuilt at Totnes
General information
Location Toller Porcorum, Dorset
England
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Bridport Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Key dates
31 March 1862Opened
5 May 1975Closed
Location
Toller railway station

Toller was a railway station on the Bridport Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. The station served the village of Toller Porcorum and the surrounding, deeply rural, area. Opened on 31 March 1862, five years after the branch, it consisted of a single platform and a modest wooden building. A loop, later reduced to a siding, offered accommodation for goods traffic until 1960.

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History

Opened by the Bridport Railway, but operated from the outset by the Great Western Railway, the station was initially placed in the Western Region when the railways were nationalised in 1948. It then passed to the Southern Region (1950-62), reverting to the Western Region in 1963.

The branch was threatened with closure in the Beeching report of March 1963, but narrow roads in the area, unsuitable for buses, kept it open until 5 May 1975. [1] [2] In its final years, trains were normally formed of a single-carriage Class 121 diesel railcar.

The site today

The platform can still be seen from the overbridge although the building was moved to Totnes on the South Devon Railway, a heritage line.

Preceding stationDisused railwaysFollowing station
Maiden Newton
Heart of Wessex Line 		  Great Western Railway
Bridport Railway 		  Powerstock
Line and station closed

References

  1. ↑ Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 423. OCLC   931112387.
  2. ↑ Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 231. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.

Further reading

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