298:. Various furniture manufacturing companies were sited in the station yard, over the years, occupying industrial buildings constructed in the late 1970s, some of them making partial use of the station building. By December 2002, the by-pass plan had been shelved and the station was unoccupied. Dorset County Council decided to dispose of the redundant station, and, after protracted negotiations, the North Dorset Railway Trust took over the lease in July 2005, with a view to re-open the station as a
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The station is located on the outskirts of the village, to the north-east. It has two platforms, with brick buildings on the 'up' (north-bound) platform and (originally) a simple wooden waiting shelter on the much longer 'down' platform. The main station building has a substantial wooden awning over
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Blandford. The passing loop, new down platform and signal box were opened in 1878; in later years the loop was 511 yards (467 m) long, as measured between the facing points at each end, compared with 514 yards (470 m) at Stalbridge. There was a small goods yard to the north of the
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506:. Shillingstone Station Project. Archived from
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681:The Directory of Railway Stations
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595:Dorset Life
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323:Templecombe
262:companies.
773:Categories
743:50°54′15″N
660:9 February
474:References
340:signal box
332:goods shed
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