Corfe Mullen Halt was a station in the English county of Dorset. It was located between Bailey Gate and Broadstone stations on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. This section was built to enable trains to avoid the time-consuming reversal at Wimborne. The station consisted of a single platform and shelter lit by a solitary gas lamp.

Corfe Mullen Halt
The site of the station in 1986
General information
Location	Corfe Mullen, East Dorset England
Grid reference	SY99459849
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Post-grouping	SR Southern Region of British Railways
Key dates
5 July 1928	Opened
19 September 1956	Closed

History

The station was opened on 9 July 1928 by the Southern Railway. It became part of the Southern Region of British Railways when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The halt was closed in 1956 as part of an economy campaign. The line through the station continued to be used by passenger trains until 1966 and afterwards by goods trains for the terminal at Blandford Forum until 1969. Later that year the track was lifted.

The site was in a cutting, which has now been filled in and is the garden of a house.

Further reading

• 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.

References

• Ordnance Survey 1" to 1 mile map of area dated 1930.
• The station on navigable O.S. map

External links

• http://www.trainweb.org/railwest/railco/sdjr/cmj.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070624121432/http://www.sdjr.net/locations/corfe_mullen.html

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