Powerstock railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Powerstock
gridref = SY5295


caption = Former railway station
manager = GWR
owner = GWR
Western Region of British Railways
locale = Powerstock
borough = West Dorset, Dorset
platforms = 1
years = 12 November 1857
events = Opened
years2 = 5 May 1975
events2 = Closed

Powerstock was a railway station on the Bridport Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. The station served the villages of Powerstock, and Nettlecombe, which was nearer the railway. Opened with the branch on 12 November 1857, it was called Poorstock until 1860. Consisting of a single platform and bungalow style building, it had a siding. The branch was threatened with closure in the Beeching report, but narrow roads, unsuitable for buses, in the area kept it open until May 5th 1975.

Operated by the Great Western Railway, it was placed in the Western Region when the railways were nationalised in 1948.

The Site Today

The station building can still be seen from the road although it has been a private home since well before the line's closure. The trackbed and platform are now part of the grounds of the house. [http://www.westbay.co.uk/bridport/railway.html]

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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
* ISBN(no ISBN)

* Powerstock Station - All Change, Diana P. Read, 1996, ISBN 0 9527522 0 4 (tells the history of the Bridport Branch line and in particular the history and people associated with Powerstock Station)