Daggons Road railway station

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Daggons Road was a railway station serving the village of Alderholt, in Dorset, to the south west of Fordingbridge, in Hampshire. It was one of many casualties of the mass closure of British railway lines in the 1960s and 1970s; the last service was on 2 May 1964.[1] It was on the Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway, which ran north–south along the River Avon just to the West of the New Forest, connecting Salisbury to the North and Poole to the south.

Daggons Road
General information
LocationAlderholt, East Dorset, Dorset
England
Grid referenceSU113126
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companySalisbury and Dorset Junction Railway
Pre-groupingLondon and South Western Railway
Post-groupingSouthern Railway
Southern Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 January 1876Opened
4 May 1964Closed

Today, the road through the centre of Alderholt village is still called Station Road, changing to Daggons Road at the point where the line crossed the road. A residential cul-de-sac named Station Yard (previously Daggons Road) occupies the land where the station once stood on the north side of Daggons Road, and there is another named Churchill Close opposite to the south.[2]


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Fordingbridge   British Rail
Southern Region

Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway
  Verwood

References

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  1. ^ Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 148. OCLC 931112387.
  2. ^ "Disused Stations: Daggons Road". Disused Stations l. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
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