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Coryates Halt railway station

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408: 37: 449: 239:. Opened on 1 May 1906, it was sited next to an overbridge carrying a lane to a dairy and the villages of Coryates and Shilvinghampton. Part of a scheme that saw several halts opened on the 483: 478: 259:
and Coryates, was used to serve the local dairies and even had a Sunday train to get the milk to markets early on Monday morning in the days before domestic refrigeration was common.
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The remains of the wooden platform at Coryates slowly return to nature in the field next to the abutments of the former bridge.
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This sign is located on Cheese Lane close to the site of the old railway bridge where the Abbotsbury branch line crossed
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This small platform at the two mile point of the branch, between
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and other railways to counter road competition, it was served by
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The station and platform closed with the branch in 1952.
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Broadwey
Weymouth and Portland
50°39′39″N 2°31′37″W / 50.6609°N 2.5270°W / 50.6609; -2.5270
Grid reference
SY628847
Great Western Railway
Western Region of British Railways
railway station
Abbotsbury branch railway
English
Dorset
GWR pagoda shelter
GWR
Railmotors
Upwey
Upwey (formerly Broadwey)
Great Western Railway
Abbotsbury branch railway
Portesham
ISBN
1-85260-508-1
Railway Correspondence and Travel Society
ISBN
0-906867-80-0
The station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
Stub icon
South West England
stub
expanding it

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