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Rail Tracks

unknown artist

Bath Road, Sturminster Newton, Dorset

Rail Tracks
Rail Tracks
Rail Tracks
Rail Tracks
Rail Tracks
Rail Tracks
Rail Tracks
Rail Tracks
Rail Tracks
Rail Tracks
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A section of rail track from the former Somerset and Dorset railway. The rails were held exactly 4 feet 8.5 inches (1.4 m) apart in metal chairs and secured with bolts and fishplates to the wooden sleepers resting on a bed of granite ballast. The Somerset and Dorset Railway ran through Sturminster Newton until the closure of Bath Junction to Broadstone in 1966. Following this stage of the Beeching Axe, the closure marked the end of 103 years of rail travel in the market town. The cutting between the Bath Road and Station Road railway bridges has since been filled in order to create the Railway Gardens. A notice board in Newton provides some brief details of the Somerset and Dorset Railway that once ran through the town. A double gate from the former Somerset Dorset Joint Railway mark the entrance to the Railway Gardens from Station Road.
Title

Rail Tracks

Medium

steel & wood

Accession number

DT10_PAL_S019

Work type

Sculpture

Owner

Sturminster Newton Town Council

Custodian

Sturminster Newton Town Council

Work status

extant

Access

at all times

Inscription description

blue plaque, left gate post: Here once passed the engines and men of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway, Closed 7 March 1966.

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Located at

Bath Road, Sturminster Newton

DT10 1QU

Located in the Railway Gardens, across the road from the library.

Artist or maker

unknown artist

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