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Upwey
Upwey
General information
Location	Broadwey, Dorset; England
Coordinates	50°39′04″N 2°28′17″W / 50.6511°N 2.4715°W
Grid reference	SY666836
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Abbotsbury Railway
Pre-grouping	GWR
Post-grouping	Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
9 November 1885	Opened as Broadway
24 June 1896	Renamed Broadwey
12 January 1906	Renamed Broadwey (Dorset)
1 January 1913	Renamed Upwey
1 December 1952	Closed to passengers
1 January 1962	Closed completely

Upwey was a railway station on the Abbotsbury branch railway in the county of Dorset in England.

History

The station was opened as Broadway on 9 November 1885 by the Abbotsbury Railway when it opened the line from Abbotsbury to Upwey Junction on the Great Western Railway (GWR) (former Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway line).^[1]^[2]

It was renamed Broadwey in 1896, then Broadwey (Dorset) in 1906 and finally the name was changed to Upwey in 1913, to avoid confusion with Broadway in Worcestershire.^[1]

Although it had a passenger platform, it mainly functioned as a goods depot as the location of Upwey Junction on an embankment made access difficult. There was a goods shed, cattle pens and a 5 ton crane.^[3]^[4]

The station was host to a GWR camp coach from 1936 to 1939.^[5] When the branch closed to passengers in 1952, the station continued on as a goods depot until 1962, served by a stub from what is now the South West Main Line.^[1]^[6]

Buildings

A typical William Clarke stone building served the single platform. The site of the station is now a builders yard with the station building and goods shed still in place.^[7]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Upwey Junction South West Main Line		Great Western Railway Abbotsbury branch railway		Coryates Halt Line and station closed

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Quick 2022, p. 459.
^ Grant 2017, p. 3.
^ "Broadwey station on OS 25 inch map Dorset XLVII.14 (Bincombe; Weymouth)". National Library of Scotland. 1889. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
^ The Railway Clearing House 1970, p. 82.
^ McRae 1997, p. 31.
^ Hurst 1992, p. 19 (ref 0911).
^ Catford, Nick. "Upwey station (Abbotsbury branch)". Disused stations. Retrieved 7 July 2020.

Bibliography

Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
The Railway Clearing House (1970) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.

External links

Station on navigable O.S. map location marked as Broadwey

[FOOTNOTEQuick2022459-1] Quick 2022, p. 459.

[FOOTNOTEGrant20173-2] Grant 2017, p. 3.

[3] "Broadwey station on OS 25 inch map Dorset XLVII.14 (Bincombe; Weymouth)". National Library of Scotland. 1889. Retrieved 7 July 2020.

[FOOTNOTEThe_Railway_Clearing_House197082-4] The Railway Clearing House 1970, p. 82.

[FOOTNOTEMcRae199731-5] McRae 1997, p. 31.

[FOOTNOTEHurst199219_(ref_0911)-6] Hurst 1992, p. 19 (ref 0911).

[7] Catford, Nick. "Upwey station (Abbotsbury branch)". Disused stations. Retrieved 7 July 2020.

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