Monument record MDO19605 - Castletown exchange sidings, Portland

Site of exchange sidings with Portland (Merchants') Railway, at end of Weymouth & Portland Railway established c1864. Former railway closed in 1939 but sidings remained until 1965.

Site of exchange sidings with Portland (Merchants') Railway, at end of Weymouth & Portland Railway established c1864. (1) Subsequent maps show the sidings with two cranes (1-4), but with just one crane in 1959. (5) Published photographs show the sidings in c1900 (6) and in January 1965. (7)

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1889, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet LVIII.7 (Map). SDO10335.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1901, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet LVIII.7 (Map). SDO10337.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1929, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet LVIII.7 (Map). SDO10336.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1960, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map (Map). SDO10272.

<6> Maggs, C G, 1996, Branch Lines of Dorset, 51 (Monograph). SDO10333.

<7> Smith, M, 1997, Railways of the Isle of Portland, 4 (Monograph). SDO10334.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2007 12:30PM