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British Railways Past and Present 29 Dorset by Terry Gough & David Mitchell SC
British Railways Past and Present 29
Dorset
Terry Gough & David Mitchell
Soft Cover
160 pages
Copyright 1996
CONTENTS
Introduction7
Routes around Wimborne9
The Somerset & Dorset17
Rails to Bournemouth27
Branksome to Wareham39
The Swanage branch57
Wool to Dorchester Junction69
Yeovil South Junction to Maiden Newton80
The Bridport branch94
South to Upwey Junction99
The Abbotsbury branch111
The Weymouth area114
The Weymouth Quay line124
The Easton branch131
The South Western Main Line138
The Lyme Regis branch158
Index of locations160
INTRODUCTION
he county of Dorset was relatively late in joining the railway building boom of the 19th
century. With a low population and little in the way of heavy industry or mining activity, prospective railway promoters did not see a great potential for profit in the area. After an abortive proposal for a line to Weymouth, efforts centred on developing a trunk route westwards to Exeter in the neighbouring county of Devon.
Accordingly, Dorset's first major railway, the Southampton & Dorchester of 1847, was conceived as a link in such a route. Promoted by A. L. Castleman, a Wimborne solicitor, the line was constructed quickly, as it avoided any geographical features that would involve heavy engineering. It was never anticipated that local traffic would be heavy, and a somewhat circuitous route was chosen to serve as many towns as possible. This led to the line acquiring the nickname of 'Castleman's Corkscrew'.
Subsequent events meant that Castleman's hopes were not to be realised, and for much of its history the line was to become little more than a backwater. His battle to create a trunk route to the West was lost when the London & South Western Railway opened its line from Salisbury to Exeter in 1859/60; sections of this railway run through Dorset and thus feature in these pages.
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