Corfe Mullen Halt railway station explained

Corfe Mullen Halt
Status:Disused
Borough:Corfe Mullen, East Dorset
Country:England
Grid Name:Grid reference
Platforms:1
Postgroup:SR
Southern Region of British Railways
Years:5 July 1928
Events:Opened
Years1:19 September 1956
Events1:Closed

Corfe Mullen Halt was a station in the English county of Dorset. It was located between Bailey Gate and Broadstone stations on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. This section was built to enable trains to avoid the time-consuming reversal at Wimborne. The station consisted of a single platform and shelter lit by a solitary gas lamp.

It linked the stations of Bailey Gate and Broadstone, passing through the hamlet of Ashington, thereby bypassing Wimborne for trains from the Bath and Bristol direction and starting the long process of Wimborne’s decline as a railway centre.

History

The station was opened on 9 July 1928 by the Southern Railway. It became part of the Southern Region of British Railways when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The halt was closed in 1956 as part of an economy campaign. The line through the station continued to be used by passenger trains until 1966 and afterwards by goods trains for the terminal at Blandford Forum until 1969. Later that year the track was lifted.

The site was in a cutting, which has now been filled in and is the garden of a house.

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