Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway

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Legend
GWR (Wessex Main Line to Westbury) Salisbury LSWR (West of England Main Line London to Exeter) Milford Goods Alderbury Staff Platforms Alderbury Junction LSWR (Wessex Main Line to Southampton) Downton Tunnel Downton Breamore Fordingbridge Daggons Road Verwood West Moors Southampton and Dorchester Railway

The Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway was a railway company, that built a line from a junction near Salisbury to another near West Moors on the Ringwood to Wimborne line. 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 (LSWR).

It was a single-track line, about 19 miles long. The line did not perform well in financial terms, and its Directors continually pressed the LSWR to improve the train service and make better through passenger journeys possible, but the line remained of local significance only. The Company was absorbed by the LSWR in 1883. In a primarily rural locality the line never made much money, and it closed in 1964.