Bridport East Street railway station

Bridport East Street was a railway station on the Bridport Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. Opened on 11 March 1884, before the extension terminus at West Bay, it was just south of the level crossing on the A35 Dorchester to Honiton road, slightly nearer the centre of Bridport than the main station at Bradpole Road. Closed during the First World War and again in 1921, the station closed permanently with the West Bay extension on 22 September 1930, when the Great Western Railway gave up on hopes of creating a resort at West Bay.

Bridport East Street
Remains of the station in 1963
General information
Location	Bridport, West Dorset England
Grid reference	SY471928
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Bridport Railway GWR
Post-grouping	GWR
Key dates
31 March 1884	Opened
1 January 1916	Closed
5 January 1920	Reopened
11 April 1921	Closed
11 July 1921	Reopened
22 September 1924	Closed
6 October 1924	Reopened
22 September 1930	Closed

The site today

Nothing is now left as the site has been under the A35 Bridport town centre bypass for many years.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Bridport Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Bridport Railway		West Bay (Bridport) Line and station closed

Further reading

• Railways of Dorset J.H.Lucking Railway Correspondence and Travel Society 1968 (no ISBN)
• B.L. Jackson & M.J. Tattershall (1998). The Bridport Railway. Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-520-0

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Station on navigable O.S. map