- Source: Upwey Wishing Well Halt railway station
Upwey Wishing Well Halt was a railway station at Bincombe in the county of Dorset in England. It served the northern part of the village of Upwey, now a suburb of Weymouth, on what is now known as the Heart of Wessex Line and the South West Main Line.
History
Opened by the GWR 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 rail motor trains, the station had GWR pagoda shelters 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 A354 overbridge good pictures could be had of steam locomotives working hard on the climb from Weymouth 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 Ridgeway Hill.
Present day
Nothing remains of the platforms as they were removed during works for the 1988 electrification. Trains still pass on the Heart of Wessex Line and the South West Main Line.
References
Further reading
R.V.J. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
J.H. Lucking (1968). Railways of Dorset. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society.
External links
The station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Upwey Wishing Well Halt railway station
- Upwey railway station
- Upwey railway station (England)
- Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway
- South West Main Line
- Monkton and Came Halt railway station
- List of closed railway stations in Britain: T-V
- Heart of Wessex Line
- All the Stations
- Great Western Railway (train operating company)
