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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.
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The railway had a locomotive, carriage and wagon works at Highbridge, Somerset, but this closed in 1930. Note that the locomotive history of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway is complicated by the many reboilerings, rebuildings, and renumberings, not all of which are captured in the table.
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 ...
Former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway stations (39 P) Pages in category "Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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.
Ashcott railway station was a station on the Highbridge branch of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. Opened by the Somerset Central Railway in 1856 as Ashcott and Meare, the name changed to Ashcott in 1876. Consisting of a short wooden platform and station building, the station was next to a road level crossing.
Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway; Salisbury and Yeovil Railway; Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway; South West Main Line; South West Trains; South Western franchise; South Western Railway; Southampton and Dorchester Railway; Southern Railway routes west of Salisbury; Swanage Pier Tramway