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Meyrick Park Halt railway station

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Bradshaw's Guide for 1910 does not show explicit times for train at the halt, but a note in the station bank states: "Halt at Meyrick Park between Bournemouth Central and Bournemouth West". Although many stopping trains in addition to the motor trains passed the location, it is not possible to infer
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newspaper to comment that, although the new station would be useful to golfers, the residents of Winton would most likely continue using the trams which were perceived as more flexible. Local residents had in fact petitioned the LSWR for a station as early as 1894, but it is thought that even if one
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on the 7:40pm service from Bournemouth West to Christchurch. This was probably the greatest number of people to ever board a train here; the railway company provided a conventional four coach train in place of the usual
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had been laid out. The decision to provide the halt followed the recommendation of the LSWR's General Manager, Sir Charles Owens, in February 1905 to meet competition by trams in the Bournemouth area by introducing two
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The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present
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how many made a call at the halt; nor whether trains from Bournemouth Central towards Poole (not Bournemouth West) made calls.
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had been provided, its patronage would have been mostly lost to the trams in any case. On 17 June 1914, 280 members of the
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which would supplement the existing local service. Around ten irregular-interval journeys were to be made between
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Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830–1980
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stations at a point halfway between Gasworks Junction and Central. It was connected to the lower end of
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by two flights of steps. The new station would serve the expanding suburb of
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austerity measure, but was never reopened. The halt was demolished in 1919.
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made the short 1-mile-72-chain (3.1 km) trip from Meyrick Park Halt to
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Trams were already well established in the area which led the
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comprising two short wooden platforms and huts in a
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Meyrick Park
Bournemouth
Dorset
Grid reference
SZ086925
London and South Western Railway
railway halt
Meyrick Park
Bournemouth
Bournemouth Central railway station
Hampshire
Dorset

London and South Western Railway
halt
cutting
South West Main Line
Bournemouth Central
West
Meyrick Park Crescent
Bournemouth
Winton
Meyrick Park
golf links
steam rail motors
Bournemouth West
Christchurch
New Milton
Ringwood

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