Bridport East Street railway station

Bridport East Street was a railway station on the Bridport Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. Opened on 11 March 1884, before the extension terminus at West Bay, it was just south of the level crossing on the A35 Dorchester to Honiton road, slightly nearer the centre of Bridport than the main station at Bradpole Road. Closed during the First World War and again in 1921, the station closed permanently with the West Bay extension on 22 September 1930, when the Great Western Railway gave up on hopes of creating a resort at West Bay.

Bridport East Street
Remains of the station in 1963
General information
LocationBridport, West Dorset
England
Grid referenceSY471928
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-groupingBridport Railway
GWR
Post-groupingGWR
Key dates
31 March 1884Opened
1 January 1916Closed
5 January 1920Reopened
11 April 1921Closed
11 July 1921Reopened
22 September 1924Closed
6 October 1924Reopened
22 September 1930Closed

The site today

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Nothing is now left as the site has been under the A35 Bridport town centre bypass for many years.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Bridport
Line and station closed
  Great Western Railway
Bridport Railway
  West Bay (Bridport)
Line and station closed

Further reading

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  • Railways of Dorset J.H.Lucking Railway Correspondence and Travel Society 1968 (no ISBN)
  • B.L. Jackson & M.J. Tattershall (1998). The Bridport Railway. Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-520-0

References

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50°43′57″N 2°45′01″W / 50.7326°N 2.7502°W / 50.7326; -2.7502