Dorset is a county in South West England. The county is largely rural and therefore does not have a dense transport network, and is one of the few English...
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The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, also known as the S&D, SDJR or S&DJR, was an English railway line connecting Bath (in north-east Somerset) and...
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Ball clay (section History in the UK)
rounded during subsequent transport, in Dorset and Devon, England during the early days of the industry during the 18th century. In 2008, UK production of...
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Dorset (/ˈdɔːrsɪt/ DOR-sit; archaically: Dorsetshire /ˈdɔːrsɪt.ʃɪər, -ʃər/ DOR-sit-sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is...
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Dorset Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Dorset in South West England, which includes the largely rural area...
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South Western Railway (category Rail transport in Dorset)
London. SWR provides suburban services in the counties of Surrey, Hampshire and Dorset, as well as regional services in Devon, Somerset, Berkshire and Wiltshire...
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Compton Abbas Airfield (category Transport in Dorset)
Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. Compton Abbas Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number P851) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers...
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Morebus (category Transport in Dorset)
Morebus is a bus operator in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, as well as the surrounding Dorset area. It is part of the Go South Coast sector of the...
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Weymouth Harbour Tramway (category Rail transport in Dorset)
streets of Weymouth, Dorset, England from a junction to the north of Weymouth station to Weymouth Quay station at Weymouth Harbour. Built in 1865, it was last...
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Bournemouth Airport (category Transport in Dorset)
1969, the airport was purchased jointly by the Bournemouth Corporation and Dorset County Council and renamed as "Bournemouth Hurn Airport", later to become...
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Sandbanks Ferry (category Transport in Dorset)
crosses the entrance of Poole Harbour in the English county of Dorset. The route runs from Sandbanks to Studland and in doing so connects the coastal parts...
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It ran through the counties of Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset in England. It opened the line in 1866, and was worked by the London and South Western Railway...
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Heart of Wessex Line (category Rail transport in Dorset)
Westbury in Wiltshire, and the newly created South Wessex CRP covering stations from Frome to Yeovil in Somerset and from Thornford to Weymouth in Dorset. On...
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Condor Ferries (category Transport in Dorset)
service with Condor Ferries on 27 March 2015 operating out of Poole on the Dorset coast. However, due to the size of Condor Liberation, ferry services to...
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West of England line (category Rail transport in Dorset)
Patrick Stephens. ISBN 9781852605087. J.H. Lucking (1968). Railways of Dorset: an outline of their establishment, development and progress from 1825....
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South Western franchise (category Rail transport in Dorset)
destinations in Surrey, Hampshire, Somerset, Dorset, Berkshire, Wiltshire and Devon on the South West, Portsmouth Direct and West of England main lines. In 2007...
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South Coast Trunk Road (category Transport in Dorset)
Coast Trunk Road is a former designation of a 222-mile (357 km) long route in southern England, sometimes called the Folkestone to Honiton trunk route....
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South West Trains (category Rail transport in Dorset)
suburban and regional services in the counties of Surrey, Hampshire and Dorset. It also provided regional services in Devon, Somerset, Berkshire, Wiltshire...
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South West Main Line (category Rail transport in Dorset)
and Bournemouth. It runs through the counties of Surrey, Hampshire and Dorset. It forms the core of the network built by the London and South Western...
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Bridport Railway (category Rail transport in Dorset)
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...
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Moordown air disaster (category Transport in Dorset)
1944, a Royal Air Force Handley Page Halifax bomber crashed in Moordown, Hampshire (now Dorset) soon after take-off from RAF Hurn (now known as Bournemouth...
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Weymouth Wizard (category Rail transport in Dorset)
the 'Speller Act' with a limited, experimental passenger service commencing in May 1985. With this came the re-opening of Melksham station. For the later...
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Lyme Regis branch line (category Rail transport in Dorset)
Axminster, running through picturesque rural countryside on the Dorset - Devon border. It opened in 1903; penetrating difficult topography, the line was very...
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Bradford Abbas Railway Cutting (category Rail transport in Dorset)
is a 1.4 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, notified in 1990. English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 31 August...
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operated by Poole Corporation in 1935. The Southern Railway's half-share in Hants & Dorset passed to the government-owned Transport Holding Company (THC) when...
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Bournemouth Traincare Depot (category Rail transport in Dorset)
of the Southern Railway and B.R. S.R., Section S1: Bournemouth and East Dorset. Smith, Paul; Stuart, Philip (2010). Railway Depots. Ian Allan Ltd. ISBN 9780711034822...
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Furzebrook Railway (category Rail transport in Dorset)
was a narrow gauge industrial railway on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. It was built by the Pike Brothers, to take Purbeck Ball Clay...
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Somerset and Dorset Railway, formed in early 2009, aims to restore the complete line of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway as a modern transport system for...
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Hamworthy Freight Branch (category Rail transport in Dorset)
line was originally constructed by the Southampton and Dorchester Railway in 1847 and was the terminus for Poole via a bridge over the inlet dividing Poole...
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Middlebere Plateway (category Rail transport in Dorset)
on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. One of the first railways in southern England and the first in Dorset, the plateway was built...
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