The Salisbury & Dorset Junction Railway was built to
consolidate the L&SWR's domination of Hampshire and south
Dorset, in an effort to keep the GWR away from Bournemouth. It also
gave Salisbury businessmen a more direct route to Poole and
Weymouth. Passing through three counties, it traversed contrasting
landscapes and served a wide if thinly populated agricultural area.
The water meadows between Downton and Fordingbridge produced
cattle, milk, and watercress. Year-round passenger traffic on the
line was at best erratic, but the line provided a useful
diversionary and holiday route. Under these circumstances, it is
not surprising that the line sadly became a victim of the Beeching
axe in 1964. Since then, however, the populations of the towns it
once served have grown considerably, and had it remained open, it
would have proved very useful, particularly for travel to Salisbury
and the Bournemouth-Poole conurbation.
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