Bradford Peverell & Stratton Halt

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Bradford Peverell and Stratton Halt was a station on the Great Western Railway on what had originally been part of the Wiltshire, Somerset & Weymouth Railway. It was between Maiden Newton and Dorchester. It was in the parish of Stratton just east of the main part of the village but also close to the parish of Bradford Peverell which it was also intended to serve. The relatively modern looking concrete platforms and shelters, standard products of the fomer Southern Railway concrete factory at Exmouth Junction, can still be seen next to the bridge carrying the line over the A37 Dorchester - Yeovil road.

Contents 1 History 2 Further reading 3 References 4 External links

[edit] History

Opened on the 22 May 1933, by the Great Western Railway, it was placed in the Western Region when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The station closed when local trains were withdrawn during the Beeching purges, taking effect on the 3rd October, 1966.

This study [1] examines the possibility of reopening the halt.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Grimstone and Frampton Line Open Station Closed		Great Western Railway Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway		Dorchester West

[edit] Further reading

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd.  ISBN 1 85260 508 1

• J.H. Lucking ,. Railways of Dorset. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society 1968.  ISBN(no ISBN)

• M. Oakley, (2001). Discover Dorset - Railway Stations. Dovecote Press.  ISBN 978-1874336969

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Stratton Village web site