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Broadstone railway station (Dorset)

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in England. It opened in 1872 under the name of New Poole Junction and closed to passengers in 1966. Between these dates there were several changes of name for a station which at its height provided a suburb of Poole with four substantial platforms and a goods yard. A prominent feature of the station
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Today the site is occupied by Broadstone Leisure Centre, its car park and a traffic roundabout. A subway to Broadstone's shopping area passes under the roads where the railway bridge used to be. This, and the building of some houses on the old trackbed north of the station site, mean that the
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and Broadstone became the meeting point of two lines. However, the construction of further cutoffs to improve access to
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lost its passenger services. This left Broadstone the junction of two goods lines, one to serve a goods depot at
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skirts the edge of the former site before regaining the old trackbed on the way to
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Broadstone became the junction for the trains to the Bournemouth station. Then the
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via a stub of the SDJR and one which passed through Wimborne to serve the
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The first line through Broadstone to close for passengers was the
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was the large footbridge needed to span the four running lines.
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was a railway station in the northern part of the Borough of
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from Brockenhurst via Ringwood in 1964. The line to
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Broadstone (Dorset) railway station

Broadstone
Poole
Grid reference
SZ004959
Southampton and Dorchester Railway
London and South Western Railway
Southern Railway
Poole
Dorset
Southampton and Dorchester Railway
Lower Hamworthy
Bournemouth West
Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
Corfe Mullen station
Ashington
Wimborne
Bournemouth
Legend
km
h
min
Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
Bailey Gate
Ringwood Line
Southampton and Dorchester Railway
Wimborne
Corfe Mullen Halt
Broadstone

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