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Coryates Halt railway station

Coordinates: 50°39′39″N 2°31′37″W / 50.6609°N 2.5270°W / 50.6609; -2.5270
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Coryates Halt
This sign is located on Cheese Lane close to the site of the old railway bridge where the Abbotsbury branch line crossed
General information
LocationBroadwey, Weymouth and Portland
England
Coordinates50°39′39″N 2°31′37″W / 50.6609°N 2.5270°W / 50.6609; -2.5270
Grid referenceSY628847
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyGreat Western Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway
Post-grouping
Key dates
1 May 1906Station opens
1 December 1952Station closes

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 and GWR pagoda shelter. Opened on 1 May 1906, it was sited next to an overbridge carrying a lane to a dairy and the villages of Coryates and Shilvinghampton. Part of a scheme that saw several halts opened on the GWR and other railways to counter road competition, it was served by Railmotors, carriages equipped with driving ends and their own small steam engine.

Friar Waddon Milk Platform

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This small platform at the two mile point of the branch, between Upwey and Coryates, was used to serve the local dairies and even had a Sunday train to get the milk to markets early on Monday morning in the days before domestic refrigeration was common.

The station and platform closed with the branch in 1952.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Upwey (formerly Broadwey)
Line and station closed
  Great Western Railway
Abbotsbury branch railway
  Portesham
Line and station closed

The site today

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The remains of the wooden platform at Coryates slowly return to nature in the field next to the abutments of the former bridge.

Further reading

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  • 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)
  • Brian L. Jackson. The Abbotsbury Branch. Wild Swan Publications Ltd. 1989. ISBN 0-906867-80-0
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