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Dorset County Council decided to dispose of the redundant station, and, after protracted negotiations, lasting from 1998 to 2005, the North Dorset Railway Trust took signed a lease for the former station site. The Trust's plan is to reopen the station as a tourist attraction, and restore the site to as it looked in the 1950s and 60s.
The 21st century has seen the station taken on by the Shillingstone Railway Project [7] (North Dorset Railway Trust or NDRT). The medium-term aim is to restore the current lease area ( 46 miles 58 + 1 ⁄ 2 chains (75.21 km ) to 46 mi 76 + 1 ⁄ 2 chains (75.57 km) from Bath Junction) which equates to 1,200 feet (366 m) of single track mainline ...
Stourpaine & Durweston Halt was opened on 9 July 1928 by the Southern Railway on the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR). It became part of the Southern Region of British Railways when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The halt was closed on 15 September 1956. [1] [2] Trains continued to pass the site until the S&DJR closed in 1966.
The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR, also known as the S&D, S&DR or SDJR), was an English railway line jointly owned by the Midland Railway (MR) and the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) that grew to connect Bath (in north-east Somerset) and Bournemouth (then in Hampshire; now in south-east Dorset), with a branch in Somerset from Evercreech Junction to Burnham-on-Sea and Bridgwater.
The Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust (S&DRHT) is a heritage railway line in Somerset, England, that runs on a restored section of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The line is approximately 1 mile long and operates from Midsomer Norton South .
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Radstock, Bath and North East Somerset England: Grid reference: Platforms: 2: Other information; Status: Disused: History; Pre-grouping: Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway: Post-grouping: SR and LMSR Western Region of British Railways: Key dates; 20 July 1874: Opened (Radstock) 26 September 1949: Renamed (Radstock North) 7 March 1966: Closed
The New Somerset and Dorset Railway, formed in early 2009, aims to restore the complete line of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway as a modern transport system for the 21st century. The group also has a heritage aspect, to encourage future use by steam specials , etc. Work is currently (December 2017) concentrated on five sites, Midford ...