Daggons Road railway station explained

Daggons Road
Status:Disused
Borough:Alderholt, East Dorset, Dorset
Country:England
Grid Name:Grid reference
Platforms:1
Original:Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway
Pregroup:London and South Western Railway
Postgroup:Southern Railway
Southern Region of British Railways
Years:1 January 1876
Events:Opened
Years2:4 May 1964
Events2:Closed

Daggons Road was a railway station serving the village of Alderholt, in Dorset, to the south west of Fordingbridge, in Hampshire. It was one of many casualties of the mass closure of British railway lines in the 1960s and 1970s; the last service was on 2 May 1964.[1] It was on the Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway, which ran north–south along the River Avon just to the West of the New Forest, connecting Salisbury to the North and Poole to the south.

Today, the road through the centre of Alderholt village is still called Station Road, changing to Daggons Road at the point where the line crossed the road. A residential cul-de-sac named Station Yard (previously Daggons Road) occupies the land where the station once stood on the north side of Daggons Road, and there is another named Churchill Close opposite to the south.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Quick, M E. Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. 2002. Railway and Canal Historical Society. Richmond. 148. 931112387.
  2. Web site: Disused Stations: Daggons Road. Disused Stations l. 3 August 2022.