- Source: Wyke Regis railway station
Wyke Regis Halt was a small railway station on the Portland Branch Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset.
The line through the station site was opened on 16 October 1865 when the Weymouth and Portland Railway opened the mixed gauge line between the towns in its name, the line was leased jointly to the Great Western Railway and the London and South Western Railway.
Opened in July 1909, it was part of a scheme that saw several halts opened on the GWR with services provided by Railmotors to counter road competition.
The halt was reached by a footpath from Ferrybridge cottages, off Portland Road.
The station closed with the branch in 1952.
The site today
The former trackbed of the line is a popular walk called the Rodwell Trail, and the platform is still there in a shallow cutting.
References
Bibliography
Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
Quick, Michael (2023) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.05. Railway & Canal Historical Society.
St John Thomas, David (1966). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. I: The West Country (3rd ed.). Newton Abbott: David & Charles.
Further reading
J.H. Lucking (1968). Railways of Dorset. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society.
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- Wyke Regis railway station
- Rodwell Trail
- South Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)
- Portland Branch Railway
- Chesil Beach
- Weymouth, Dorset
- List of closed railway stations in Britain: W-Z
- Ferry Bridge, Dorset
- Chickerell
- Portland railway station (England)
