Upwey railway station (Abbotsbury Railway)

Upwey was a railway station on the Abbotsbury branch railway in the county of Dorset in England.

History
The station was opened as Broadway on 9 November 1885 by the Abbotsbury Railway when it opened the line from Abbotsbury to Upwey on the Great Western Railway (GWR) (former Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway line).

It was renamed Broadwey in 1896, then Broadwey (Dorset) in 1906 and finally the name was changed to Upwey in 1913, to avoid confusion with Broadway in Worcestershire.

Although it had a passenger platform, it mainly functioned as a goods depot as the location of Upwey Junction on an embankment made access difficult. There was a goods shed, cattle pens and a 5 ton crane.

The station was host to a GWR camp coach from 1936 to 1939. When the branch closed to passengers in 1952, the station continued on as a goods depot until 1962, served by a stub from what is now the South West Main Line.

Buildings
A typical William Clarke stone building served the single platform. The site of the station is now a builders yard with the station building and goods shed still in place.