This beautiful and interesting length of rural railway has always been relegated to a small section in books on the Somerset & Dorset line.
The line was actually part of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, being jointly owned by the London & South Western Railway (L&SWR) and the Midland Railway (MR).
Now it is fully illustrated in an exclusive album, together with the early station at Poole and the long lamented terminus at Bournemouth West.
Old tickets, timetables and maps add flavour to this generous helping of steaming through nostalgia.
Authors: Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith
Hardback. 240 x 174 mm. 96 pages
120 photographs. Large-scale maps
Middleton Press
Country Railway Routes Series
Locations in this area:-
Bailey Gate
Blandford Forum
Bournemouth West
Branksome
Broadstone
Charlton Marshall
Cole
Corfe Mullen
Creekmoor Halt
Evercreech Junction
Henstridge
Holes Bay Junction
Parkstone
Poole
Shillingstone
Spetisbury
Stalbridge
Stourpaine & Durweston Halt
Sturminster Newton
Templecombe Junction
Templecombe Lower
Templecombe Shed
Templecombe Upper
Wincanton
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