2. Railways

Return to the Somerset and Dorset Railway

I never travelled on the S&D, it closed just after my fourth birthday. But I have driven along the line visiting the stations and tunnels and some of the notable viaducts several times, not always taking photos sadly. These pictures are from two trips, in 2019 and 2021 plus a few from much earlier trips and we go from the south to the north.
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    This is the site of Henstridge station, a simple affair with one short platform on the single line section with a modest station building. A siding was controlled from a ground frame. The station was closed to passengers when the S&DJR main line closed on 7 March 1966. Goods traffic had ceased a year earlier.
    This is Henstridge platform in July 1983 looking south. The green line is the edge of the platform, honestly.
    Templecombe is where the S&D passed below the LSWR line from Salisbury to Exeter and formed a junction with a spur linking the two and running into the LSWR station. On 3 February 1862, the Dorset Central Railway opened its own Templecombe Lower station, in January 1887 the Lower station was closed and replaced by Templecombe Lower Platform. This is the site of Templecombe Lower Platform, which I believe is still in situ under the grass and trees on the right of the lawn. The original Lower station building was incorporated into the loco shed and both buildings still stand in industrial use but impossible to photograph.