Monkton and Came Halt railway station

Monkton and Came Halt
Location
Place	Winterborne Herringston
Area	Weymouth and Portland
Operations
Original company	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Western Region of British Railways
History
1 July 1905	Opened as Came Bridge Halt
1 October 1905	Renamed Monkton and Came (Golf Links) Halt
7 January 1957	Closed
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Monkton and Came Halt was a railway station between Weymouth and Dorchester in the county of Dorset in England. It was on what is now the Heart of Wessex Line.

History

Opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1905, it was part of a scheme by the railway company to counter road competition. Served by local Weymouth to Dorchester rail motor trains, the station had GWR pagoda shelters and wooden platforms. The platforms were later replaced with brick built structures but the pagodas remained until road competition saw the closure of the halt in 1957. The halt was called Came Bridge when opened but the name was changed a few years afterward. There is little habitation nearby and the halt existed mainly to serve an adjacent Golf Course as well as visitors to the nearby Maiden Castle.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Dorchester West Line Open, Station Open		Great Western Railway Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway		Upwey Wishing Well Halt Line Open, Station Closed

Present day

The platforms of the halt can be seen by walking up the field adjacent to the railway in the direction of Dorchester. Trains still pass on the Heart of Wessex Line and the South Western Main Line.

References

• 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. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 

External links

• Station on navigable O.S. map

Coordinates: 50°41′37″N 2°27′01″W / 50.69358°N 2.45022°W / 50.69358; -2.45022