__NOTOC__ Wyke Regis Halt was a small railway station on the

Portland Branch Railway The Portland Branch railway was a railway line located on the Isle of Portland in the English county of Dorset. The line operated from the late nineteenth century until closing to passengers in 1952 and goods in 1965. For a short line, it had ...

in the west of the English county of Dorset. The line through the station site was opened on 16 October 1865 when the Weymouth and Portland Railway opened the mixed gauge line between the towns in its name, the line was leased jointly to the

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

and the London and South Western Railway. Opened in July 1909, it was part of a scheme that saw several halts opened on the GWR with services provided by Railmotors to counter road competition. The halt was reached by a footpath from Ferrybridge cottages, off Portland Road. The station closed with the branch in 1952.

The site today

The former trackbed of the line is a popular walk called the

Rodwell Trail The Rodwell Trail is a short-distance footpath that runs from Wyke Regis to the town centre of Weymouth in Dorset – a distance of 3.5 kilometres. The trail, opened in 2000, travels along the former route of the Weymouth and Portland Railway. ...

, and the platform is still there in a shallow cutting.

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