Upwey railway station (Abbotsbury Railway)

Upwey
General information
Location	Broadwey, Dorset England
Coordinates	50°39′04″N2°28′17″W / 50.6511°N 2.4715°W / 50.6511; -2.4715
Grid reference	SY666836
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Abbotsbury Railway
Pre-grouping	GWR
Post-grouping	Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
9 November 1885	Opened as Broadway
24 June 1896	Renamed Broadwey
12 January 1906	Renamed Broadwey (Dorset)
1 January 1913	Renamed Upwey
1 December 1952	Closed to passengers
1 January 1962	Closed completely
Location

Upwey was a railway station on the Abbotsbury branch railway in the county of Dorset in England.

History

The station was opened as Broadway on 9 November 1885 by the Abbotsbury Railway when it opened the line from Abbotsbury to Upwey Junction on the Great Western Railway (GWR) (former Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway line). ^{[1] [2]}

It was renamed Broadwey in 1896, then Broadwey (Dorset) in 1906 and finally the name was changed to Upwey in 1913, to avoid confusion with Broadway in Worcestershire. ^[1]

Although it had a passenger platform, it mainly functioned as a goods depot as the location of Upwey Junction on an embankment made access difficult. There was a goods shed, cattle pens and a 5 ton crane. ^{[3] [4]}

The station was host to a GWR camp coach from 1936 to 1939. ^[5] When the branch closed to passengers in 1952, the station continued on as a goods depot until 1962, served by a stub from what is now the South West Main Line. ^{[1] [6]}

Buildings

A typical William Clarke stone building served the single platform. The site of the station is now a builders yard with the station building and goods shed still in place. ^[7]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Upwey Junction South West Main Line		Great Western Railway Abbotsbury branch railway		Coryates Halt Line and station closed

References

1. Quick 2022, p. 459.
2. Grant 2017, p. 3.
3. "Broadwey station on OS 25 inch map Dorset XLVII.14 (Bincombe; Weymouth)". National Library of Scotland. 1889. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
4. The Railway Clearing House 1970, p. 82.
5. McRae 1997, p. 31.
6. Hurst 1992, p. 19 (ref 0911).
7. Catford, Nick. "Upwey station (Abbotsbury branch)". Disused stations. Retrieved 7 July 2020.

Bibliography

• Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. ISBN   978-1-78803-768-6.
• Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991 . Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN   0-9477-9618-5.
• McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. ISBN   1-870119-48-7.
• Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
• The Railway Clearing House (1970) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. ISBN   0-7153-5120-6.

Further reading

• R.V.J. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   1-85260-508-1
• J.H. Lucking. Railways of Dorset. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society 1968. ISBN(no ISBN)
• Brian L. Jackson. The Abbotsbury Branch. Wild Swan Publications Ltd. 1989. ISBN   0-906867-80-0

External links

• Station on navigable O.S. map location marked as Broadwey