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SHILLINGSTONE For more information and to express your support visit the Official Station Project Website or contact The Membership Secretary, TNDRT, P.O.Box 88, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8TF 31 May 2004 Update by Mark Pike: "Here are two taken on 31/5/04 from the dizzy heights of Hod Hill (my goodness, what a climb that was!!). One pic shows Shillingstone Station looking very tiny in the surrounding countryside and the other one shows Stourpaine & Durweston village. If you look carefully, in the top left corner you can see what must surely be the last concrete P-way hut in situe along the whole formation of the line??! Unless you or anyone knows any different??"
7 May 2004. New pictures by Mark Pike taken on the 3 May 2004. Note the first time the cattle dock has been seen for almost 40 years!. Click on images to enlarge.
8 September 2003. Pictures by Mark Pike taken 6 Sept 2003. Note protective barriers around buildings. Click on images to enlarge.
27-31 August 2003. Pictures of the Shillingstone Station Project stand at the Great Dorset Steam Fair by Mark Pike. Click on images to enlarge.
16 August 2003. I can inform you that
the meeting with the Dorset County Council was an overwhelming success and we now have written confirmation of the Council's intent to provide us with the leasehold!! As soon as boundaries are sorted out we can get in and get started! Also included are the old
Stour Bridge Arches at Blandford Forum that the Trust aim to restore as a memorial to the railway in that town. For further information please visit the Shillingstone Station Project homepage. Mark Pike 16th August 2003
August 2001, I donned solid boots, boiler suite and industrial gloves and headed off to one of the most exciting things happening in this part of deepest darkest Dorset. Shillingstone, the only surviving Dorset Central Railway station is a mere stone's throw from the River Stour. Hidden in the far corner of a rural industrial estate the station buildings, grainstore and platforms have survived. Continuing use of the station building as a workshop until very recently ensured that this unique structure was maintained. Recent closure of the surrounding estate however has placed the future of this valuable piece of railway history in jeopardy. With the possibility of the site being re-developed, the North Dorset Railway Trust (TNDRT) has been formed with the aim of restoring the station to its former glory and to possibly even run trains.
The crowning glory had to be for the first time in probably 35 years, the proudly displayed name, 'SHILLINGSTONE' on the down platform. Oddly after all these years the support posts for the platform nameplates still survive in addition to one of the oil lamp bases. The old Southern Region green paint is still very much visible on much of the old railway ironwork.
For more information and to express your support see: www.shillingstone-station-project.co.uk or contact The Membership Secretary, TNDRT, P.O.Box 88, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8TF Chris Nevard Jan 2002
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