The Southampton and Dorchester Railway was an English railway company formed to join Southampton in Hampshire with Dorchester in Dorset, with hopes of forming part of a route from London to Exeter. It
Southampton Central station (1963)
Tank Engine Alderney at Southampton Docks, 1947
Southampton Docks, Town Quay, redundant railway lines, once a branch of the Southampton and Dorchester Railway
Dorchester – Waterloo express at Parkstone (1958)
The Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway was a railway company, that built a line from a junction near Salisbury to another near West Moors on the Ringwood to Wimborne line. It ran through the counti
Southampton and Dorchester Railway
…Ashley Heath Halt was opened on 1 April 1927. West Moors was opened on 1 August 1867; it was the station at which the Salisbury line of the friendly Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway converged. Wimborne. From 1 November 1860 the Dorset Central Railway joined here. Their engines were serviced at Wimborne, and LSWR engines took their…
Downton railway station
Fordingbridge railway station, on a contemporary postcard
The former Breamore station buildings, now in use as a private dwelling
Downton - tunnel