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The station was opened on 9 November 1885 by the Abbotsbury Railway when it opened the line from Abbotsbury to Upwey Junction on the Great Western Railway (GWR) (former Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway line). [1] [2] The station had a single platform and a passing loop.
Abbotsbury was the terminus of the Abbotsbury branch railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. Serving the village of Abbotsbury, it was sited amid fields to the east of the village on the Weymouth to Abbotsbury road, because the railway could not buy the land needed to build the station nearer to the village centre. Plans for ...
The Abbotsbury Railway was a standard gauge railway line which ran in the west of the county of Dorset in England opening in 1885. Although great hopes of mineral traffic drove the original construction of the line, these failed to materialise and after a quiet existence carrying local passengers and agricultural produce, the line closed in 1952.
Abbotsbury elects four of the 15 councillors on Chesil Bank Parish Council. [26] For elections to Dorset Council, it is part of Chesil Bank electoral ward. [27] Historically, Abbotsbury was in Weymouth Rural District from 1894 to 1933, [28] Dorchester Rural District from 1933 to 1974, [29] and the West Dorset district from 1974 to 2019.
Portesham, sometimes also spelt Portisham, [2] is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England, situated in the Dorset Council administrative area approximately 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Weymouth, 6 miles (10 km) southwest of the county town Dorchester, and 2 miles (3 km) northeast of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site at Chesil Beach.
The district will cut 26 positions through layoffs, non-renewed contracts, retirements, and leaving positions vacant. Weymouth to cut 26 school workers due to budget shortfall. What administrators ...
Upwey railway station serves the Broadwey, Upwey and Littlemoor suburbs of Weymouth in Dorset, England.The station is situated on the South West Main Line, 140 miles 31 chains (225.9 km) from London Waterloo and on the Heart of Wessex Line, 166 miles 30 chains (267.8 km) from London Paddington.
This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in South West England.. Between 1663 and 1836, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed a series of acts of Parliament that created organisations - turnpike trusts – that collected road tolls, and used the money to repair the road.