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...
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Abbotsbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. The village is located around 7+1⁄2 miles (12.1 km) west southwest of Dorchester...
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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...
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Upwey was a railway station on the Abbotsbury branch railway in the county of Dorset in England. The station was opened as Broadway on 9 November 1885...
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the single track Abbotsbury branch. The branch was absorbed into the GWR and survived for 66 years before closure under British Railways in 1952. On the...
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Junction Railway (1873) Treffry Tramroads (1873) Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway (1892) Abbotsbury Railway (7 August 1896) Corwen and Bala Railway (7 August...
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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...
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South West Main Line (redirect from Waterloo via Weybridge railway service)
The South West Main Line (SWML) is a 143-mile (230 km) major railway line between Waterloo station in central London and Weymouth on the south coast of...
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Chiswell on Portland. Simon Jenkins rates the view of Chesil Beach from Abbotsbury along the coast to Portland Bill as one of the top ten in England. The...
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Australia Disused stations: Upwey railway station (Abbotsbury Railway), Dorset, England Upwey Wishing Well Halt railway station, Dorset, England This disambiguation...
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Railway; Forth Bridge Railway; Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway; Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway; and Newport Railway. Atherny and Tuam Railway;...
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Coryates Halt was a small railway station on the Abbotsbury branch railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. It consisted of a single platform...
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The Bathampton to Bradford section was doubled on 17 May 1885. The Abbotsbury Railway finally succeeded in opening its line after serious delays and difficulties...
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Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Act 1877 c. ccx Abbotsbury Railway Act 1877 c. ccxi Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway Act 1877 c. ccxii Birmingham...
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This list is for railway lines across Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which are now abandoned, closed, dismantled or disused. Within the United Kingdom...
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19 May 1882 (Repealed by County of Lancashire Act 1984 (c. xxi)) Abbotsbury Railway Act 1882 45 & 46 Vict. c. xii 19 May 1882 King's College London...
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Green Valley 804: To Liverpool via Hinchinbrook 806: To Liverpool via Abbotsbury 810: To Merrylands via Pemulwuy 810X: To Merrylands via Great Western...
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list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the following: Year of closure is given if known. Stations reopened as heritage railways continue to...
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dancing. Portesham had a railway station sited across fields to the south of the village, on a branch line between Abbotsbury (the neighbouring village...
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Transit Systems Sydney 806: to Liverpool via Greystanes, Prairiewood and Abbotsbury 810 and 810X: to Parramatta via Pemulwuy, Greystanes, South Wentworthville...
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suburb of Weymouth from the early 1880s. In 1880, the largely undeveloped Abbotsbury Road, along which Westham was centred, saw the construction of a number...
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Heart of Wessex Line (category Community railway lines in England)
Heart of Wessex Line, also known as the Bristol to Weymouth Line, is a railway line that runs from Bristol Temple Meads to Westbury and Weymouth in England...
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Newton Abbot (category Railway towns in England)
north-west) and Wolborough (to the south). Other areas and suburbs include Abbotsbury, Aller Park, Broadlands, Buckland, Knowles Hill, Milber, Mile End and...
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initially served by local Weymouth to Dorchester South rail motor and Abbotsbury trains. The station lasted well into the nationalised era served by Bournemouth...
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list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the following: Year of closure is given if known. Stations reopened as heritage railways continue to...
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from Canley Vale railway station to Abbotsbury. It connects to the Parramatta to Liverpool Rail Trail Cycleway at Canley Vale railway station, to the Clear...
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over Abbotsbury Road. R.V.J. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. J.H. Lucking (1968). Railways of...
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Great Coastal Railway Journeys is a BBC documentary series produced by Naked West and presented by Michael Portillo, a former Conservative MP and Minister...
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miles (557 km) the Macmillan Abbotsbury Langport Link, which creates a 24 miles (39 km) short-cut for walkers from Abbotsbury to Barnstaple, a total of 126...
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Services NHS Trust, former chairman of the King's Fund Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury 11 January 2007 Crossbench Law life peer Former president of the Supreme...
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