Bridport East Street railway station
Bridport East Street | |
---|---|
![]() Remains of the station in 1963
|
|
Location | |
Place | Bridport |
Area | West Dorset |
Grid reference | SY464915 |
Operations | |
Pre-grouping | Bridport Railway GWR |
Post-grouping | GWR Western Region of British Railways |
Platforms | 1 |
History | |
31 March 1884 | Opened |
1 January 1916 | Closed |
5 January 1920 | Reopened |
11 April 1921 | Closed |
11 July 1921 | Reopened |
22 September 1924 | Closed |
6 October 1924 | Reopened |
22 September 1930 | Closed |
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
|
UK Railways portal |
Bridport East Street was a railway station on the Bridport Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. Opened on 11 March 1884, before the extension terminus at West Bay, it was just south of the level crossing on the A35 Dorchester to Honiton road, slightly nearer the centre of Bridport than the main station at Bradpole Road. Closed during the First World War and again in 1921, the station closed permanently with the West Bay extension on 22 September 1930, when the Great Western Railway gave up on hopes of creating a resort at West Bay.
The site today
Nothing is now left as the site has been under the A35 Bridport town centre bypass for many years.
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Bridport Line and station closed |
Great Western Railway Bridport Railway |
West Bay (Bridport) Line and station closed |
Further reading
- Railways of Dorset J.H.Lucking Railway Correspondence and Travel Society 1968 (no ISBN)
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. ISBN 978-0-85361-520-0
References
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Station on navigable O.S. map
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Articles with OS grid coordinates
- Disused railway stations in Dorset
- Former Great Western Railway stations
- Railway stations opened in 1884
- Railway stations closed in 1916
- Railway stations opened in 1920
- Railway stations closed in 1921
- Railway stations opened in 1921
- Railway stations closed in 1924
- Railway stations opened in 1924
- Railway stations closed in 1930
- Bridport
- South West England railway station stubs