Bradford Peverell & Stratton Halt

Bradford Peverell and Stratton Halt was a station on the Great Western Railway on what had originally been part of the Wiltshire, Somerset & Weymouth Railway. It was between Maiden Newton and Dorchester. It was in the parish of Stratton just east of the main part of the village but also close to the parish of Bradford Peverell which it was also intended to serve. The relatively modern looking concrete platforms and shelters, standard products of the fomer Southern Railway concrete factory at Exmouth Junction, can still be seen next to the bridge carrying the line over the A37Dorchester - Yeovil road.

History

Opened on the 22 May 1933, by the Great Western Railway, it was placed in the Western Region when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The station closed when local trains were withdrawn during the Beeching purges, taking effect on the 3rd October, 1966.

This study [http://www.demandanalysis.co.uk/BA.pdf] examines the possibility of reopening the halt.

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Further reading

*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1

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*cite book|author= M. Oakley, |title= Discover Dorset - Railway Stations|publisher=Dovecote Press |year=2001 ISBN 978-1874336969

References

External links

* [http://www.strattondorset.com Stratton Village web site]