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
Frome station and roof in 2016
Trowbridge station in 1908
A modern train at Bradford-on-Avon
Bradford on Avon station in 1897
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
Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway
…Deviation Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. lx) passed on 25 June 1847, so that much time had been lost before construction could start there. By now the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, friendly to the LSWR, had reached Dorchester (on 1 June 1847). The line had been independently promoted, and it had wooed both the GWR and the LSWR…
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)