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Abbotsbury railway station

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37: 213:, it was sited amid fields to the east of the village on the Weymouth to Abbotsbury road, because the railway could not buy the land needed to build the station nearer to the village centre. Plans for westward expansion came to nothing and led to the railway petering out in a shallow cutting to the west of the station. 461: 456: 310:
and engine shed, and although neither of these operated for long, the ruins of the engine shed remained until closure. The goods shed however functioned for the life of the branch.
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The station building has now been replaced with a private dwelling although the platform remains underneath the length of the building.
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stone building served the single platform. The station also had a
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Abbotsbury
West Dorset
50°39′57″N 2°35′29″W / 50.66586°N 2.59139°W / 50.66586; -2.59139
Abbotsbury Railway
Great Western Railway
Western Region of British Railways
Abbotsbury branch railway
English
Dorset
Abbotsbury
Abbotsbury Railway Company
Great Western Railway
Western Region of British Railways
nationalisation
Portesham
Great Western Railway
Abbotsbury branch railway
William Clarke
signal box
Powell and Pressburger
The Small Back Room
ISBN
1-85260-508-1
ISBN
0-906899-99-0
Abbotsbury station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
ISBN
0-906867-80-0
ISBN

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