Disused railway lines and closed stations in Dorset

150 miles of disused railway
46 closed stations
21 stations open today
24 named lost lines

Dorset has 150 miles of disused railway and 46 closed stations, against 21 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.2 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Weymouth Line, with 19 miles of its route inside Dorset.

See Dorset’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 150 miles of lost railway in Dorset break down as 142 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 6.3 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 0.9 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Dorset

24 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Dorset; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Weymouth Line	19
Broadstone Junction to Templecombe Lower Line	17
Bridport Branch	11
Brockenhurst to Wimborne Line	11
Salisbury & Dorset Line	8.8
Portland Branch Railway	8.2
West of England Line	8.1
Ringwood to Christchurch Line	7.7
North Dorset Trailway	6.5
Abbotsbury Line	6.1
Fayles Tramway	5.7
Bournemouth Main Line	5.0
Blandford Camp Railway	3.8
Furzebrook Railway	3.6
Middlebere Tramway	3.5
Broadstone Junction to Hamworthy Junction	3.5
Broadstone Junction to Poole	2.9
Corfe Mullen Junction to Wimborne Junction	2.9
Weymouth Harbour Tramway	1.9
Newton Tramway	1.7
Merchant's Railway	1.4
Bournemouth West Branch	0.7
Dudmoor Lane	0.6
Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway	0.6

Closed railway stations in Dorset

All 46 closed and former stations in Dorset, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Dorset

21 stations in Dorset still have a train service. The busiest are Bournemouth (2.7 million a year), Poole (965,090 a year), Weymouth (751,302 a year), Christchurch (484,080 a year) and Dorchester South (466,422 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Devon.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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