Portesham railway station
Portesham was a small railway station serving the village of Portesham in the west of the English county of Dorset.
Location
The station was situated across the fields from the village, not far from an underbridge that carried the line across the Weymouth to Abbotsbury road at a skewed angle. Just to the east of the station, an incline provided access to quarries near the Hardy Monument.History
The station was opened on 9 November 1885 by the Abbotsbury Railway when it opened the line from to on the Great Western Railway .The station had a single platform and a passing loop. The goods shed was opposite the platform and functioned for the life of the branch. The station was the site of a GWR camp coach from 1935 to 1939.
The station closed with the branch on 1 December 1952.