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Hamworthy: postbox № BH16 257, Turlin Road
This Elizabeth II-reign postbox serves the eastern part of the Turlin Moor council estate, and is emptied finally at 5:30pm on weekdays and at 11:15am on Saturdays.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 15 Nov 2009
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Block of flats in Turlin Road
Image: © David Martin
Taken: 26 Feb 2022
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Hamworthy, railway bridges
Crossing Blandford Road; in the foreground, the Poole to Weymouth line, behind it, the dismantled Poole to Dorchester & Ringwood line; between them, the start of
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Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 28 Feb 2010
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The Hamworthy goods line
Viewed 'over the fence' at Hamworthy station. The line appears to be now disused, but a 2017 report said that a regular weekly service had restarted along the branch.
Image: © John Lucas
Taken: 27 Apr 2022
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Hamworthy, signal box
Controlling this section of the Poole to Wareham line, and also access to the now rarely-used branch line to Poole Quay.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 11 Mar 2010
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Railway Bridges, Blandford Rd
The front bridge is on the Poole to Dorchester and is still in use but the further away bridge was part of a now dismantled line that ran through Broadstone and then branched going on to either Wimborne Minster or Blandford.
Image: © Nigel Mykura
Taken: 28 Sep 2011
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Hamworthy Station
On the left is the signal box controlling access to the Hamworthy branch
Image: © Roger Templeman
Taken: 22 Oct 2011
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Blandford Road in Hamworthy
Image: © Steve Daniels
Taken: 16 Jul 2014
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Hamworthy railway station, Dorset
Opened in 1847 by the Southampton & Dorchester Railway, which was a more sinuous inland route than the present day line via Bournemouth. View north east towards Poole and Southampton.
Image: © Nigel Thompson
Taken: 9 Jul 2011
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Railway bridges at Hamworthy
Exactly 46 years separates the construction of these two railway bridges over Blandford Road. The one in the foreground, now disused, opened on 1st June 1847 by the Southampton & Dorchester Railway. The one in the background, which now carries the current London to Weymouth mainline, was opened on 1st June 1893 by the London & South Western Railway.
Image: © Peter Kazmierczak
Taken: 4 Oct 2009
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