The Somerset & Dorset Railway - S&D Opening and Closing Dates

Section of line	Authorised	Company	Opened to public traffic	Note
Highbridge-Glastonbury	17 June 1852	Somerset Central	28 August 1854	(1) (2)
Highbridge-Burnham	30 July 1855	Somerset Central	3 May 1858	(2)
Glastonbury-Wells	30 July 1855	Somerset Central	15 March 1859	(2) (3)
Wimborne Jcn-Blandford	29 July 1856	Dorset Central	1 November 1860	(4) (5) (6)
Glastonbury-Cole	21 July 1856	Somerset Central	3 February 1862	(7)
Cole-Templecombe	10 August 1857	Dorset Central	3 February 1862	(7) (8)
Templecombe-Blandford	10 August 1857	Dorset Central	31 August 1863	(9)
Templecombe Upper-No.3 Jcn	16 July 1866	Salisbury & Yeovil	March 1870
Evercreech Jcn-Bath Jcn	21 August 1871	Somerset & Dorset	20 July 1874
Corfe Mullen Jcn-Broadstone	20 August 1883	LSWR and MR	14 December 1885	(10)
Edington Jcn-Bridgwater	18 August 1882	Bridgwater	21 July 1890	(11)

(1) Formal opening - 17th August 1854
(2) Worked by the Bristol & Exeter until 3rd February 1862
(3) Formal opening - 3rd March 1959
(4) Formal opening - 31st October 1960
(5) Temporary station at Blandford St Mary
(6) Worked by the LSWR until the 31st August 1863
(7) Formal opening - 18th January 1862
(8) Worked by Somerset Central until the 1st September 1862
(9) Opened by the Somerset & Dorset
(10) For goods only. Opened for passenger traffic on 1st November 1886
(11) Acquired by the LSWR 1st January 1923
(12) Absorbed by the LSWR 22nd July 1848
(13) Temporary station until the opening of Queen Square 7th May 1870

March 1870	Templecombe Lower to junction with Salisbury & Yeovil line (Part of this link was retained as a siding)
16 January 1887	Templecombe Lower station & number 1 junction
11 July 1920	Corfe Mullen junction to Wimborne junction [Passenger traffic]
17 June 1933	Corfe Mullen Junction to Wimborne Junction [Goods traffic] (Except the section between Corfe Mullen junction and Carters Siding)
5 May 1950	Templecombe Lower Yard
29 October 1951	Glastonbury to Wells branch [All traffic] Highbridge to Burnham [Normal passenger traffic] (The line was still used for excursion traffic)
1 December 1952	Edington Junction to Bridgwater [Passenger traffic]
1 October 1954	Edington Junction to Bridgwater [Goods traffic]
17 September 1956	Charlton Marshall, Corfe Mullen, Spetisbury and Stourpaine & Durweston Halts closed
19 September 1959	Corfe Mullen Junction to Carters Siding
8 September 1962	Highbridge to Burnham closed to special excursion passenger traffic
20 May 1963	Highbridge to Burnham [Goods traffic] (except the section from Highbridge to Highbridge Wharf)
2 November 1964	Highbridge Wharf Sidings [ Shipping goods traffic]
16 May 1965	Highbridge to Highbridge Wharf [Remaining goods traffic]
14 June 1965	Wincanton to Blandford [Goods traffic]
3 January 1966	Radstock to Wincanton [Goods traffic] (Except coal from Midsomer Norton)
19 February 1966	Radstock to Wincanton [Coal traffic from Midsomer Norton] Highbridge to Evercreech Junction
7 March 1966	Bath Junction to Broadstone [Passenger traffic] Evercreech Junction to Highbridge [Passenger traffic] Bath Co-op Siding to Writhlington [All traffic] Radstock to Blandford [All traffic] Evercreech Junction to Bason Bridge [All traffic]
30 November 1967	Bath Co-op siding to Bath Junction
6 January 1969	Blandford to Broadstone [Goods]
2 October 1972	Bason Bridge to Highbridge [Remaining milk traffic]

Section of line	Company	Date opened	Used by the S&D	Note
Wimborne-Poole (Hamworthy)	Southampton & Dorchester	1 June 1847	31 August 1863	(12)
Broadstone-Poole (New station)	LSWR	2 December 1872	2 December 1872
Poole-Bournemouth West	Poole & Bournemouth	15 June 1874	15 June 1874
Bath Jcn-Bath (Queen Square)	MR	4 August 1869	20 July 1874	(13)