Upwey Wishing Well Halt railway station

Upwey Wishing Well Halt
Location
Place Bincombe
Area District of West Dorset
Operations
Original company Great Western Railway
Post-grouping British RailwaysSouthern Region
Platforms 2
History
28 May 1905 Opened
7 January 1957 Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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Upwey Wishing Well Halt was a railway station at Bincombe in the county of Dorset in England. It served the northern part of the village of Upwey, now a suburb of Weymouth, on what is now known as the Heart of Wessex Line and the South Western Main Line.

History

Opened by the GWR in 1905, it was part of a scheme by the railway company to counter road competition, particularly from Weymouth's buses. Served by local Weymouth to Dorchester rail motor trains, the station had GWR pagoda shelters and wooden platforms. The platforms were later replaced with brick built structures but the pagodas remained until road competition saw the closure of the halt in 1957. The site remained popular with railway photographers as from the former access paths and the A354 overbridge good pictures could be had of steam locomotives working hard on the climb from Weymouth up to Bincombe Tunnel. A remarkable thing about the site was that before the construction of the Weymouth relief road, the underbridge to the south of the platforms carried the same road as the overbridge to the north; the A354 negotiated a hairpin bend to the east of the line on the climb over Ridgeway Hill.

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Monkton and Came Halt
Line Open, Station Closed
   Great Western Railway
Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway		   Upwey
Line Open, Station Open

Present day

Not much now remains of the platforms as they were partly removed during works for the 1988 electrification. Trains still pass on the Heart of Wessex Line and the South Western Main Line.

Further reading

Coordinates: 50°39′53″N 2°27′54″W / 50.6648°N 2.4650°W / 50.6648; -2.4650


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