Corfe Mullen 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 Bailey Gate and Broadstone stations 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 ...

. This section was built to enable trains to avoid the time-consuming reversal at

Wimborne Wimborne Minster (often referred to as Wimborne, ) is a market town in Dorset in South West England, and the name of the Church of England church in that town. It lies at the confluence of the River Stour and the River Allen, north of Poole ...

. The station consisted of a single platform and shelter lit by a solitary gas lamp.

History

The station was opened on 9 July 1928 by the Southern Railway. It became part of the

Southern Region of British Railways The Southern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948 until 1992 when railways were re-privatised. The region ceased to be an operating unit in its own right in the 1980s. The region covered south London, southern England and the sout ...

when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The halt was closed in 1956 as part of an economy campaign. The line through the station continued to be used by passenger trains until 1966 and afterwards by goods trains for the terminal at

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

until 1969. Later that year the track was lifted. The site was in a cutting, which has now been filled in and is the garden of a house.

References

* Ordnance Survey 1" to 1 mile map of area dated 1930.
The station on navigable O.S. map

External links

*http://www.trainweb.org/railwest/railco/sdjr/cmj.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20070624121432/http://www.sdjr.net/locations/corfe_mullen.html 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 Corfe Mullen {{SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub

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