Monument record MDO19605 - Castletown exchange sidings, Portland

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Summary

Site of exchange sidings with Portland (Merchants') Railway, at end of Weymouth & Portland Railway established c1864. Former railway closed in 1939 but sidings remained until 1965.

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Site of exchange sidings with Portland (Merchants') Railway, at end of Weymouth & Portland Railway established c1864. (1) Subsequent maps show the sidings with two cranes (1-4), but with just one crane in 1959. (5) Published photographs show the sidings in c1900 (6) and in January 1965. (7)

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  • <1> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1864, 1886. Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one. paper. 1:2500.
  • <2> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1889. Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet LVIII.7.
  • <3> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1901. Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet LVIII.7.
  • <4> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1929. Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet LVIII.7.
  • <5> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1960. Ordnance Survey 25-inch map.
  • <6> Monograph: Maggs, C G. 1996. Branch Lines of Dorset. 51.
  • <7> Monograph: Smith, M. 1997. Railways of the Isle of Portland. 4.

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Location

Grid reference SY 6855 7428 (point)
Map sheet SY67SE
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Sep 12 2007 12:30PM

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