Dorton Halt railway station

Dorton Halt
Station site in 2006.
Location
Place	Dorton
Area	District of Aylesbury Vale
Grid reference	SP681144
Operations
Original company	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
UK Railways portal

Dorton Halt railway station was a railway station serving the village of Dorton in Buckinghamshire. 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.

History

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
Brill and Ludgershall Line open, station closed		Great Western Railway Bicester "cut-off"		Haddenham Line open, station closed

Notes

1 2 Butt 1995, p. 81.
1 2 3 Willox 1937, p. 308.

References

Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
Willox, W.A., ed. (April 1937). "What the Railways are Doing: New G.W.R. Buckinghamshire Halt". The Railway Magazine (Westminster: Railway Publishing Co) LXXX (478).

External links

Closed railway stations in Buckinghamshire

Banbury to Verney Junction Branch Line	Fulwell & Westbury Water Stratford Halt Radclive Halt Buckingham Padbury Verney Junction

Metropolitan Railway	Verney Junction Winslow Road Granborough Road

Varsity Line	Winslow Swanbourne Claydon Marsh Gibbon and Poundon

Brill Tramway	Waddesdon Road Westcott Wotton Wood Siding Brill

Wycombe Railway	Bledlow Loudwater Wooburn Green West Wycombe

Great Central Railway	Akeman Street Waddesdon Calvert Wotton

Newport Pagnell branch	Bradwell Great Linford Newport Pagnell

Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway	Brill and Ludgershall Dorton Halt Haddenham Ilmer Halt

Other lines	Aylesbury High Street Bledlow Bridge Halt Denbigh Hall Olney Penn South Aylesbury Halt Twyford Bridge Halt Castlethorpe

Coordinates: 51°49′29″N 1°00′42″W / 51.8246°N 1.0116°W / 51.8246; -1.0116

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, March 17, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.