Corfe Mullen Halt railway station

Corfe Mullen (East End)
Location
Place	Corfe Mullen
Area	East Dorset
Grid reference	SY99459849
Operations
Post-grouping	SR Southern Region of British Railways
Platforms	1
History
5 July 1928	Opened
19 September 1956	Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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Corfe Mullen Halt was a station in the English county of Dorset. It was located between Bailey Gate and Broadstone stations on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. This section was built to enable trains to avoid the time consuming reversal at Wimborne. The station consisted of a single platform and shelter lit by a solitary gas lamp.

History

The station was opened on 9 July 1928 by the Southern Railway. It became part of the Southern Region of British Railways when the railways were nationalised in 1947. The halt was closed in 1956 as part of an economy campaign. Trains continued to pass the site until the S&DJR closed in 1966.

Track was finally lifted in 1969, as the railway was still open until the closure of the goods terminal at Blandford that year. The site was in a cutting, which has now been filled in and is the garden of a house.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Broadstone Line and station closed		Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway LSWR & Midland Railways		Bailey Gate Line and station closed

Further reading

• Butt, R. V. J. (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. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 

References

• Ordnance Survey 1" to 1 mile map of area dated 1930.
• The station on navigable O.S. map

External links

• http://www.trainweb.org/railwest/railco/sdjr/cmj.html
• http://www.sdjr.net/locations/corfe_mullen.html

Coordinates: 50°47′10″N 2°00′33″W / 50.78598°N 2.00917°W / 50.78598; -2.00917