Portland Branch Railway
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The Portland Branch railway refers to a group of lines on the Isle of Portland in the English county of Dorset. The first was the Portland Railway, a tramway with a counterbalanced rope-worked incline
Portland Railway incline from Castleton
Castletown, Isle of Portland, quarry stone
The Merchants' Railway from Castletown
Stone descending the Merchants' Railway
The Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway was an early railway company in south-western England. It obtained an act of Parliament giving powers to build the line in 1845 to build a railway from near Ch
Portland Branch Railway
…nineteenth century, Weymouth developed considerably as a seaside holiday resort. The broad gauge Great Western Railway had taken over the incomplete Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway and opened a line from near Chippenham to Weymouth on 20 January 1857. The London and South Western Railway had reached Dorchester with the aid of the…
Frome station and roof in 2016
Trowbridge station in 1908
A modern train at Bradford-on-Avon
Bradford on Avon station in 1897