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Dorset’s Lost Railways by Peter Dale Soft Cover
Dorsets Lost Railways by Peter Dale
Soft Cover
48 pages
Copyright 2001
INTRODUCTION
Dorset is a county of thatched cottages, a place for holidays by the sea, and it is Hardy country. Weymouth remains a holiday destination and the nearby naval base at Portland was once of great importance.
The earliest railways in the county were connected with the clay industry on the Isle of Purbeck. The Middlebere Plateway was built in 1806 and linked the clay pits near Norden with a wharf on Middlebere Creek. It was horse-worked and used 3 feet long plates, set on stone sleepers, rather than edge rails. It seems to have remained in use until the early twentieth century.
Early public railways in the county were conceived as parts of plans for links with Exeter by both the London & South Western Railway (LSWR), to compete with the Great Western Railway (GWR), and by the GWR to r y a more direct route than its circuitous great way round through Bristol.
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