Melcombe Regis railway station
Melcombe Regis was a station on the Portland Branch Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. Opened in April 1909, it was sited at the north end of the bridge over Radipole Lake. The station was built to enable Portland branch passengers to go to Weymouth without the need for the branch train to reverse to enter Weymouth railway station. The branch junction was to the north of Weymouth station and faced Dorchester. The station closed officially with the branch on 3 March 1952. However the station continued to be used for overflow from the adjacent Weymouth station. particularly on summer Saturdays, regularly until 12 September 1959, and irregularly for a while after that.
Operated by the Great Western Railway, it was placed in the Western Region when the railways were nationalised in 1948.
Goods trains continued to pass the site on their way to the Admiralty sites on Portland until 1965.
The site today
The site was near a car park at the north end of the relief road bridge that replaced the old girder bridge over the backwater. For a long time there was a Go-Kart track next to the remains of the platform, which was overgrown. The site has since been developed as Jubilee Business Park.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminus Line and station closed Through trains Radipole or Weymouth (via reversal) |
GWR and LSWR Portland Branch Railway |
Westham Halt Line and station closed | ||
Further reading
- Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
References
- Subterranean Britannica
- British Railway Journal, Volume 8 Number 69.
- Station on navigable O.S. map located near Weymouth main station north of Radipole Lake
Coordinates: 50°36′56″N 2°27′23″W / 50.6156°N 2.4563°W