Blandford Forum railway station
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Blandford Forum railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway between Templecombe and Broadstone Junction. It served the town of Blandford Forum. The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.
[edit] Naming
The 1904 Railway Clearing House atlas gives the name as Blandford.