Portland railway station (England)

Portland
General information
Location	Isle of Portland, Dorset England
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Weymouth and Portland Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway British Railways (Southern Region)
Key dates
16 October 1865 (1865-10-16)	Opening
1 September 1902	Station relocation
3 March 1952 (1952-03-03)	Closed to passengers
1965 (1965)	Station closure

Portland was a railway station on the Portland Branch Railway in the south of the English county of Dorset. The station opened with the Easton and Church Hope Railway, one of the constituent parts of a complex line, on 16 October 1865. The station was moved to a new site on the opening of the extension to Easton on 1 September 1902.

After this, the old station was used as a goods station and depot. The extension was technically a separate railway, the Easton and Church Hope, although the branch was operated as one line throughout. The second Portland station had multiple platforms with canopies for the large staff of the Admiralty establishments around it.

The station closed to passengers in 1952, although regular freight kept the line in use until 1965. The platforms and canopies survived until the mid-1970s when the site was absorbed by the base and demolished.

Further reading

• R.V.J. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
• J.H. Lucking (1968). Railways of Dorset. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Wyke Regis Halt Line and station closed		GWR and LSWR Portland Branch Railway		Easton (Portland) Line and station closed