Dorton Halt | |
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Station site in 2006. | |
Location | |
Place | Dorton and Brill |
Area | Aylesbury Vale |
Grid reference | SP681144 |
Operations | |
Original company | Great Western Railway |
Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
Post-grouping | Great Western Railway Western Region of British Railways |
Platforms | 2 |
History | |
21 July 1937 | Station opens |
7 January 1963 | Station closes |
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–V W–Z |
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Dorton Halt railway station was a railway station serving the village of Dorton in Buckinghamshire and . It was on what is now known as the Chiltern Main Line. The station was geographically nearer to Brill than Brill and Ludgershall railway station.
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Dorton Halt was opened on 21 July 1937,[1] being situated between Brill & Ludgershall and Haddenham on the Great Western Railway's Bicester cut-off line,[2] which had opened in 1910. It was built to serve the villages of Dorton, Wotton, Chilton and Ashendon, which lay in an agricultural district, and together had a population of 650.[2] There were two platforms, each with a shelter; the station was electrically lit.[2] The line became part of the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. British Railways closed the station on 7 January 1963.[1]
Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
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Brill and Ludgershall Line open, station closed |
Great Western Railway Bicester "cut-off" |
Haddenham Line open, station closed |
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