Toller railway station

Toller
265px The former Toller station building now rebuilt at Totnes
Location
Place	Toller Porcorum
Area	West Dorset
Operations
Original company	Bridport Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	1
History
31 March 1862	Station opens
5 May 1975	Station closes
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Toller was a railway station on the Bridport Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. The station served the village of Toller Porcorum. Opened on 31 March 1862, five years after the branch, it consisted of a single platform and modest wooden building.

History

Opened by the Bridport Railway, but operated from the outset by the Great Western Railway, it was placed in the Western Region when the railways were nationalised in 1948.

The branch was threatened with closure in the Beeching report, but narrow roads in the area, unsuitable for buses, kept it open until 5 May 1975. In its final years, trains were normally formed of a single carriage Class 121 diesel railcar.

The site today

The platform can still be seen from the overbridge although the building was moved to Littlehempston on the South Devon Railway, a heritage line[1].

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Maiden Newton Heart of Wessex Line		Great Western Railway Bridport Railway		Powerstock Line and station closed

External links

• Station on navigable O.S. map

• Bridport Trailway
• Toller on disused-stations.org.uk