Toller railway station

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Toller was a railway station on the Bridport Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. The station served the village of Toller Porcorum. Opened on 31 March 1862, five years after the branch, it consisted of a single platform and modest wooden building. Operated by the Great Western Railway, it was placed in the Western Region when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The branch was threatened with closure in the Beeching report, but narrow roads, unsuitable for buses, in the area kept it open until May 5th 1975.

[edit] The Site Today

The platform can still be seen from the overbridge although the building was moved to Littlehempston on the South Devon Railway, a heritage line[1].

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Maiden Newton Heart of Wessex Line		Great Western Railway Bridport Railway		Powerstock Line and station closed

[edit] Further reading

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd.  ISBN 1 85260 508 1

• J.H. Lucking ,. Railways of Dorset. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society 1968.  ISBN(no ISBN)