Heart of Wessex Line

Heart of Wessex Line
Class 37s at Maiden Newton with a summer Saturday Bristol-Weymouth service in 2009
Overview
Status	Operational
Owner	Network Rail
Locale	Wiltshire Dorset South West England
Service
Type	Suburban rail, Heavy rail
System	National Rail
Ridership	2,119,070 (2017)[1]
Technical
Line length	87mi 20ch (140.41 km)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map (Click to expand)

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Legend
Cross Country Route Bristol Temple Meads Bristol–Exeter line St Anne's Park Keynsham Saltford Somerset & Dorset Joint Rly to Bath Green Park Twerton-on-Avon Oldfield Park Westmoreland Road goods yard Bath Spa Hampton Row Halt Bathampton Bathampton Junction Great Western Main Line Bristol & North Somerset Rly (Camerton branch) Limpley Stoke Freshford Avoncliff Bradford-on-Avon Bradford Junction to Chippenham Trowbridge Reading–Taunton line Westbury Wessex Main Line to Salisbury Bristol and North Somerset Railway Radstock West 1875 1959 Mells Road 1887 1959 Frome 1851   Whatley Quarry Witham 1856 1966 East Somerset Railway to Wells Strap Lane Halt Bruton 1856   Somerset & Dorset Joint Rly to Poole Castle Cary 1856   Reading–Taunton line Sparkford 1856 1966 Marston Magna 1856 1966 Yeovil–Taunton line Yeovil Town│Yeovil Pen Mill 1943 link West of England line to Exeter Yeovil Junction Clifton Maybank goods West of England line to Salisbury Thornford 1936   Yetminster 1857   Chetnole Evershot Tunnel Evershot Cattistock Bridport branch Maiden Newton 1857   Grimstone Viaduct Grimstone and Frampton 1857 1966 Bradford Peverell & Stratton Halt 1933 1966 Poundbury Tunnel Dorchester West 1857   Dorchester Junction South West Main Line Monkton and Came Halt 1905 1957 Bincombe Tunnel Upwey Wishing Well Halt 1905 1957 Upwey (original station) Abbotsbury branch 1885 1952 Upwey 1886   Radipole Halt 1905 1984 Weymouth Portland Branch Railway Weymouth Harbour Tramway 1865 1999 Weymouth Quay 1889 1987

The Heart of Wessex Line, also known as the Bristol to Weymouth Line, is a railway line that runs from Bristol Temple Meads to Westbury and Weymouth in England. It shares the Wessex Main Line as far as Westbury and then follows the course of the Reading to Taunton Line as far as Castle Cary.