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Upwey Wishing Well Halt railway station

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up to Bincombe Tunnel. A remarkable thing about the site was that before the construction of the Weymouth relief road, the underbridge to the south of the platforms carried the same road as the overbridge to the north; the A354 negotiated a hairpin bend to the east of the line on the climb over
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and wooden platforms. The platforms were later replaced with brick built structures but the pagodas remained until road competition saw the closure of the halt in 1957. The site remained popular with railway photographers as from the former access paths and the
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in 1905, it was part of a scheme by the railway company to counter road competition, particularly from Weymouth's buses. Served by local Weymouth to Dorchester
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The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present
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Nothing remains of the platforms as they were removed during works for the 1988 electrification. Trains still pass on the
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overbridge good pictures could be had of steam locomotives working hard on the climb from
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Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology
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Index


Bincombe
Dorset
Great Western Railway
Bincombe
Dorset
England
Upwey
Weymouth
Heart of Wessex Line
South West Main Line
GWR
rail motor
GWR pagoda shelters
A354
Weymouth
Ridgeway Hill
Historical railways
Monkton and Came Halt
Great Western Railway
Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway
Upwey
Heart of Wessex Line
South West Main Line
OCLC
931112387
Butt, R. V. J.
The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present
Sparkford
ISBN

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