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Henstridge railway station

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37: 209:, which had merged with the Somerset Central Railway the previous year to form the Somerset and Dorset. However public traffic did not start until 10 September, after the Board of Trade's inspection. As part of the southern section of the line, it was under the administrative control of the 445: 455: 450: 225:
when the railways were nationalised in 1948, the station was closed to passengers when the S&DJR main line closed on 7 March 1966. Goods traffic had ceased a year earlier.
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Today the site is a green area at the edge of a residential estate. A road overbridge to the north of the station site helps to mark the location.
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The station was "formally" opened on 31 August 1863 on the completion of the Blandford Forum to Templecombe section of the
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after the Somerset and Dorset came under joint ownership of the LSWR and the
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Henstridge
South Somerset
Grid reference
ST726201
Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
SR
LMSR
Southern Region of British Railways
Henstridge
Somerset
England
Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
siding
ground frame
Dorset Central Railway
London and South Western Railway
Midland Railway
Southern Region
British Railways

Stalbridge
Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway
LSWR
Midland Railways
Templecombe
ISBN
1-85260-508-1
Railway Correspondence and Travel Society
ISBN

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