Dorton Halt
Station site in 2006.
General information
Location	Dorton, Buckinghamshire England
Grid reference	SP681144
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
21 July 1937	Station opens
7 January 1963	Station closes

Dorton Halt railway station was a railway station serving the village of Dorton in Buckinghamshire. It was on what is now known as the Chiltern Main Line. The station was geographically nearer to Brill than Brill and Ludgershall railway station.

History

Dorton Halt was opened on 21 July 1937, ^[1] being situated between Brill & Ludgershall and Haddenham on the Great Western Railway's Bicester cut-off line, ^[2] which had opened in 1910. It was built to serve the villages of Dorton, Wotton, Chilton and Ashendon, which lay in an agricultural district, and together had a population of 650. ^[2] There were two platforms, each with a shelter; the station was electrically lit. ^[2] The line became part of the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. British Railways closed the station on 7 January 1963. ^[1]

Notes

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN  978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC  60251199. OL  11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN  978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC  228266687.
• Willox, W.A., ed. (April 1937). "What the Railways are Doing: New G.W.R. Buckinghamshire Halt". The Railway Magazine. LXXX (478). Westminster: Railway Publishing Co.

External links

• The station on navigable 1946 O. S. map

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