Charlton Marshall Halt was a station in the English county of

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...

. It was located between Blandford Forum and Bailey Gate on the

Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, also known as the S&D, SDJR or S&DJR, was an English railway line connecting Bath (in north-east Somerset) and Bournemouth (now in south-east Dorset but then in Hampshire), with a branch from Evercreec ...

. The station consisted of two short platforms and shelters.

History

The station was opened on 5 July 1928 by the Southern Railway. It became part of the Southern Region of

British Railways British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The halt was closed in 1956 as part of an economy campaign. It was also used by special trains for Clayesmore Preparatory School until the last such usage on 17 December 1963.BR Plymouth Division records There were 2 carriages which started from Waterloo attached to one of the regular main line trains and these carriages were un-coupled from the main line train and coupled to a local train to go to Charlton Marshall Halt. There was a train at the beginning and end of each school term. So there were 6 trains that stopped at the halt every year. Trains continued to pass the site until the S&DJR closed in 1966. Track was finally lifted in 1969, as the railway was still open until the closure of the goods terminal at

Blandford Blandford Forum ( ), commonly Blandford, is a market town in Dorset, England, sited by the River Stour about northwest of Poole. It was the administrative headquarters of North Dorset District until April 2019, when this was abolished and i ...

that year. The site was in a cutting, which now part of a footpath and bridleway.

References

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Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20090107031846/http://www.sdjr.net/locations/charlton_marshall.html *http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/22206 Disused railway stations in Dorset Former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1928 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1956 {{SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub