Dorchester South railway station

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Dorchester South
Location
Place	Dorchester
Local authority	West Dorset
Operations
Station code	DCH
Managed by	South West Trains
Platforms in use	2
Annual entry/exit 04/05	0.376 million **
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Dorchester South railway station is one of two railway stations serving the town of Dorchester in Dorset. The station is located on the London Waterloo-Weymouth line.

The station is served by South West Trains. Services originate from London Waterloo or Weymouth Station and are operated by Class 442 electric multiple units.

1 Future plans
2 Images
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Future plans

Although the current station was only rebuilt in 1989, there are plans for a new station on the current site in the coming years. Also there are plans to redevelop the Eldridge Pope Brewery site with hotels, apartments and houses planned amongst others. It is planned to turn the station into the first ever Solar powered railway station in Britain. This would take several years to come into action but the station would not change drastically, instead the building on Platform 1 would have a new solar panel as a roof.