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|} The Bridport Railway was a railway branch line that operated in the county of Dorset in England. It connected Bridport with the main line network at Maiden Newton, and opened on 12 November 1857. It was extended to West Bay in 1884, but the extension was not well used and it closed to passengers in 1930. The remaining branch closed in 1975. ==Origins== During the 1840s a number of railway schemes had been proposed, that would have put Bridport on a main line from London to Exeter. This included the Bridport and Exeter Railway, and schemes to extend the London and South Western Railway to Exeter from Dorchester. As late as 1853 there was a firm proposal to build such a line, but it fell through and the present-day route via Yeovil was adopted instead. Dismayed at being abandoned from the main line system, businessmen in Bridport observed that the Great Western Railway (GWR) was making plans to extend its partly built line, the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway (WS&WR) from Castle Cary to Weymouth and they resolved to build a branch line to connect their town to that line. (The incorporating Act of the WS&WR had originally authorised a branch to Bridport).〔E T MacDermot, ''History of the Great Western Railway'', vol I, published by the Great Western Railway, London, 1927〕 Accordingly on 5 May 1855 they obtained the authorising Act of Parliament to build a 9¼ mile branch line to a junction with the GWR at Maiden Newton.〔E F Carter, ''An Historical Geography of the Railways of the British Isles'', Cassell, London, 1959〕〔Christopher Awdry, ''Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies'', Patrick Stephens Limited, Wellingborough, 1990, ISBN 1 85260 049 7〕 It is said to be the last broad gauge line in Dorset. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bridport Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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