The Hamworthy Freight Branch is a short standard gauge line from Hamworthy Station to the Hamworthy side of Poole Harbour. The line was originally constructed...
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Poole, with a population of only 6,000, would be served by a branch from a station at Hamworthy. Castleman hoped to persuade the LSWR to operate the route...
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casing to protect it from vandalism. This is the junction where the Hamworthy Freight Branch to Poole docks joins the main line. There is a disused third platform...
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in Great Britain Beeching cuts Morrison, Brian (ed.). "The Meldon Quarry Branch". Modern Railways Pictorial, 1986. Ian Allan. p. 16. ISBN 0-7110-1510-4...
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Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (redirect from Somerset and Dorset Railway (Nettlebridge Branch Railway Abandonment) Act 1878)
and on the branch to Wells. At this time Poole station was on the western side of Holes Bay, at the location that ultimately became Hamworthy Goods. Intermediate...
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London and South Western Railway (redirect from London and South Western Railway (Farnham and Alton Branch) Act 1846)
important town) and Poole; the port of Poole was served by a branch to Lower Hamworthy on the south side of Holes Bay. It then continued via Wareham...
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well as the Poole Heritage Cycle Route for cyclists. A freight-only branch runs from Hamworthy railway station to Poole Docks. However, the line is fenced...
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considered an important settlement and Poole was served by a branch to Lower Hamworthy, across a toll bridge from the town. In the late 19th century...
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locomotive number 33107 collided with the rear of a freight train at Holton Heath, between Wareham and Hamworthy Junction, according to television news the driver...
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Dorchester and beyond to Weymouth until the Holes Bay Curve linking Poole with Hamworthy Junction opened in 1893. From then, passenger trains were mostly restricted...
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in 1893, to join with the original Southampton and Dorchester line at Hamworthy Junction via the Holes Bay Curve - forming an alternative through-route...
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last through to Weymouth. The intermediate services operated to Poole (Hamworthy). LSWR service timetables for February 1872 read: "Alderbury Junction...
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Old Sarum (Salisbury) and Clausentum (Southampton) or to Moriconium (Hamworthy near Poole), probably for the export of lead and silver from mines in...
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Dawson International Ltd. Douglas Allenby Smith, Managing Director, Hamworthy Engineering Ltd. For services to Export. Harold Cumming Spear, Member...
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