Toller railway station
Toller was a railway station on the Bridport Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. The station served the village of Toller Porcorum and the surrounding, deeply rural, area. Opened on 31 March 1862, five years after the branch, it consisted of a single platform and a modest wooden building. A loop, later reduced to a siding, offered accommodation for goods traffic until 1960.
History
Opened by the Bridport Railway, but operated from the outset by the Great Western Railway, the station was initially placed in the Western Region when the railways were nationalised in 1948. It then passed to the Southern Region, reverting to the Western Region in 1963.The branch was threatened with closure in the Beeching report of March 1963, but narrow roads in the area, unsuitable for buses, kept it open until 5 May 1975. In its final years, trains were normally formed of a single-carriage Class 121 diesel railcar.