Verwood railway station

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Verwood
Site of railway station, now part of a beer garden
Location
Location	Verwood
Area	East Dorset, Dorset
Grid reference	SU077093
Operations
Pre-grouping	Salisbury & Dorset Junction Railway London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway Southern Region of British Railways
Platforms	2
History
20 December 1866	Opened
4 May 1964	Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D-F G H-J K-L M-O P-R S T-Z
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Verwood was a railway station serving Verwood, a village in Dorset. The village is now much larger than when the line ran as it is within reasonable travelling distance of the South East Dorset conurbation. It was one of many casualties of the mass closure of British railway lines in the 1960s and 1970s; the last service was on 4 May 1964. It was served by the Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway, a line running North-South, along the River Avon just to the West of the New Forest, connecting Salisbury to the North and Poole to the South, meeting the Southampton and Dorchester Railway at West Moors.

Today, the station site is the beer garden of a public house.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Daggons Road		British Rail Southern Region Salisbury & Dorset Line		West Moors

[edit] External links

• www.disused-stations.org.uk Verwood Station at Subterranea Britannica
• Verwood Historical

[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)