Heart of Wessex Line

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Heart of Wessex Line

Legend Bristol Temple Meads Keynsham Oldfield Park Bath Spa Bathampton Junction (For GWML) Bristol and North Somerset Railway (Camerton branch) Limpley Stoke Freshford Avoncliff Bradford-on-Avon Bradford Junction (To Chippenham) Trowbridge Reading to Plymouth Line Westbury Wessex Main Line Bristol and North Somerset Railway (To Bristol Temple Meads) Radstock (1875-1959) Mells Road (1887-1959) Frome (1851) Whatley Quarry Frome older station Witham (1856-1966) East Somerset Railway (To Wells) Bruton (1856) Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway Castle Cary (1856) Reading to Plymouth Line Sparkford (1856-1966) Marston (1856-1966) Yeovil Pen Mill (1856) former line to Taunton Yeovil Town 1967 rationalisation link West of England Main Line Yeovil Junction Clifton Maybank goods Thornford (1936) Yetminster (1857) Chetnole Halt Evershot Tunnel Evershot Cattistock Bridport branch (1857-1975) Maiden Newton (1857) Grimstone Viaduct Grimstone and Frampton (1857-1966) Bradford Peverell & Stratton Halt (1933-1966) Poundbury Tunnel Dorchester (1857) Dorchester Junction (L&SWR main line) Start of joint line with L&SWR Monkton and Came Halt (1905-1957) Bincombe Tunnel Upwey Wishing Well Halt (1905-1957) Upwey (original station) (1871-1886) Abbotsbury branch (1885-1952) Upwey Junction (1886) Radipole Halt (1905-1984) Portland Branch Railway (Portland Branch) Weymouth Harbour Tramway Weymouth Weymouth Quay

The Heart of Wessex Line, also known as the Bristol to Weymouth line, is a United Kingdom railway line that runs from Bristol to Westbury to Weymouth. It diverges from the Wessex Main Line at Westbury, and follows the course of the Great Western Main Line as far as Castle Cary.

The towns served by this routes are listed below:

• Bristol Temple Meads
• Keynsham
• Oldfield Park
• Bath
• Freshford
• Avoncliff
• Bradford on Avon
• Trowbridge
• Westbury
  • Wessex Main Line continues to Southampton.
• Frome
• Bruton
• Castle Cary
  • Great Western Main Line continues to Taunton.
• Yeovil Pen Mill
• Thornford
• Yetminster
• Chetnole
• Maiden Newton
• Dorchester
• Upwey
• Weymouth

Passenger services are currently operated by First Great Western. Most services originate from Bristol Temple Meads, but some from Westbury. Many services now originate from Cardiff and stop at Newport before reaching Bristol.

[edit] External links

• Heart of Wessex line.
• Ordnance Survey [1]

[edit] Bibliography

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

• Robert Adley , (1988). Covering My Tracks. Patrick Stephens Ltd.  ISBN 0-85059-882-6

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

v • d • e Railway lines in South-West England and the "Great Western" zone : InterCity lines: Cross Country Route • Great Western Main Line Main lines: Bristol to Taunton Line • Cherwell Valley Line • Cornish Main Line • Gloucester-Newport Line • Reading to Plymouth Line • South Wales Main Line • Wessex Main Line • West of England Main Line • Reading to Basingstoke Line Commuter lines: Exeter-Exmouth "Avocet" Line • Greenford Branch Line • Severn Beach Line • Slough-Windsor & Eton Line Rural lines: Exeter-Barnstaple "Tarka" Line • Golden Valley Line • Heart of Wessex Line • Henley Branch Line • Looe Valley Line • Marlow Branch Line • Par-Newquay "Atlantic Coast" Line • Exeter-Paignton "Riviera" Line • St Ives Bay Line • Tamar Valley Line • Truro-Falmouth "Maritime" Line