Coryates Halt railway station

Coryates Halt
This sign is located on Cheese Lane close to the site of the old railway bridge where the Abbotsbury branch line crossed
Location
Place	Broadwey
Area	Weymouth and Portland
Coordinates	50°39′39″N 2°31′37″W / 50.6609°N 2.5270°W / 50.6609; -2.5270Coordinates: 50°39′39″N 2°31′37″W / 50.6609°N 2.5270°W / 50.6609; -2.5270
Grid reference	SY628847
Operations
Original company	GWR
Post-grouping	Western Region of British Railways
Platforms	1
History
1 May 1906	Station opens
1 December 1952	Station closes
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Coryates Halt was a small railway station on the Abbotsbury branch railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. It consisted of a single platform and pagoda shelter. Opened on 1 May 1906, it was sited next to an overbridge carrying a lane to a dairy and the villages of Coryates and Shilvinghampton. Part of a scheme that saw several halts opened on the GWR and other railways to counter road competition, it was served by Railmotors, carriages equipped with driving ends and their own small steam engine.

Friar Waddon Milk Platform

This small platform at the two mile point of the branch, between Upwey and Coryates, was used to serve the local dairies and even had a Sunday train to get the milk to markets early on Monday morning in the days before domestic refrigeration was common.

The station and platform closed with the branch in 1952.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Upwey (formerly Broadwey) Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Abbotsbury branch railway		Portesham Line and station closed

The site today

The remains of the wooden platform at Coryates slowly return to nature in the field next to the abutments of the former bridge.

Further reading

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd.  ISBN 1-85260-508-1
• J.H. Lucking ,. Railways of Dorset. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society 1968.  ISBN(no ISBN)
• Brian L. Jackson. The Abbotsbury Branch. Wild Swan Publications Ltd. 1989.  ISBN 0-906867-80-0

External links

• The station on navigable 1946 O. S. map