Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
type: ArchitecturalStructure
type: RailwayLine
type: RouteOfTransportation
type: Thing
type: Infrastructure
subject: Category:Railway companies established in 1875
subject: Category:History of Somerset
subject: Category:Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
subject: Category:Rail transport in Somerset
subject: Category:British joint railway companies
subject: Category:History of Dorset
subject: Category:Somerset coalfield
subject: Category:Rail transport in Dorset
subject: Category:Closed railway lines in South West England
routes: Bath to Bournemouth, Bridgwater to Bournemouth, Burnham to Bournemouth
tracks: Majority single track. double track.
locale: Somerset
locale: Dorset
parliament: Parliament of the United Kingdom
status: Mostly disused
status: repealed
repealing legislation: Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2013
end: Bournemouth West railway station
end: Bridgwater North railway station
end: Burnham-on-Sea railway station
logo: Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway Crest.png
event: S&DR becomes S&DJR under joint ownership by Midland Rly. and London & South Western Rly.
event: SCR and DCR amalgamate to form Somerset & Dorset Railway
id: F162788
id: F165847
collapsed: yes
depot: Highbridge Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Works; Bournemouth
type: Act
type: Passenger rail terminology
bottom: Sources
citation: --08-01
long title: An Act for authorizing the Somerset and Dorset Railway Company to acquire additional Lands for the Purposes of their Undertaking; and to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
long title: An Act for conferring further powers on the Somerset and Dorset Railway Company.
long title: An Act for authorising the Somerset and Dorset Railway Company to make a Line of Railway from their Railway at Evercreech to the Midland Railway at Bath, with a Branch to the Bristol and North Somerset Railway at Radstock; and to raise further Moneys; and for other purposes; and of which the Short Title is "Somerset and Dorset Railway Act, 1871.
long title: An Act for authorizing the Somerset Central Railway Company to lay down Narrow Gauge Lines of Rails on their Railways, and to raise further Funds; and for regulating their Capital and Borrowing Powers; and for other Purposes.
long title: An Act for the Amalgamation of the Somerset Central Railway Company and the Dorset Central Railway Company, and for other Purposes.
long title: An Act for conferring further Powers on the Somerset and Dorset Railway Company for the construction of Works, and otherwise in relation to their Undertaking; and for other purposes.
long title: An Act for enabling the Somerset Central Railway Company to construct a Railway from Glastonbury to near Bruton, and for other Purposes.
long title: An Act for extending the Periods for the Purchase of Lands and the Execution of Works for the Somerset Central Railway Company's authorized Railway from Glastonbury to Bruton; for authorizing the Somerset Central Railway Company to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
long title: An Act for extending the Time for the Completion of Portions of the Dorset Central Railway; for enabling the Somerset Central Railway Company to subscribe to the Undertaking; and for other Purposes.
long title: An Act for enabling the Somerset Central Railway Company to construct Railways to Wells and to Burnham, and a Pier at Burnham, and to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes.
long title: An Act for authorizing an Extension of the Dorset Central Railway; for regulating the Capital of the Dorset Central Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
long title: An Act for the abandonment of the Nettlebridge Branch Railway authorised by the Somerset and Dorset Railway Act, 1873; and for other purposes.
long title: An Act for making a Railway from the Southampton and Dorchester Railway to Blandford Saint Mary in the County of Dorset, and for other Purposes.
original text: https://books.google.co.uk/books%3Fid=alc1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA239
original text: ukla 18730251 en.pdf
original text: ukla 18710205 en.pdf
original text: ukla 18560135 en.pdf
original text: ukla 18570139 en.pdf
original text: ukla 18640223 en.pdf
original text: ukla 18520063 en.pdf
original text: ukla 18550182 en.pdf
original text: ukla 18560102 en.pdf
royal assent: 1876-07-13
royal assent: 1873-08-05
royal assent: 1861-08-01
royal assent: 1856-07-29
royal assent: 1857-08-10
royal assent: 1874-06-30
royal assent: 1852-06-17
royal assent: 1864-07-25
royal assent: 1871-08-21
royal assent: 1855-07-30
royal assent: 1862-08-07
royal assent: 1860-07-03
short title: Somerset and Dorset Railway Act 1871
short title: Somerset and Dorset Railway Leasing Act 1876
short title: Somerset and Dorset Companies Amalgamation Act 1862
title bg: #008000
elevation: between Binegar and Masbury
legend: footpath
name: Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
name: Somerset & Dorset Railway Co