Bridport railway station

Bridport railway station

Bridport was a railway station on the Bridport Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. Opened with the branch on 12 November 1857 it was renamed Bridport (Bradpole Road) when the West Bay extension opened, to distinguish it from East Street and West Bay stations. In 1902 it was renamed Bridport. Consisting of a two platforms, a small goods yard and engine shed, it had a signal box.

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

After the withdrawal of the West Bay trains in 1930 the station became the passenger terminus of the line. Then in the 1960s the goods service was withdrawn, leading to the lifting of the track south of Bridport station, and the line was operated with a single car diesel multiple unit. Although threatened with closure in the Beeching report, narrow roads, unsuitable for buses, in the area kept the line open until May 5th 1975.

The Site Today

The location is now the site of a supermarket [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)

External Links

* [http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#347,92,1 Bridport station on navigable 1946 O. S. map]


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