Holton Heath railway station serves the area of Holton Heath in Wareham

Wareham, Dorset

Wareham is an historic market town and, under the name Wareham Town, a civil parish, in the English county of Dorset. The town is situated on the River Frome eight miles southwest of Poole.-Situation and geography:...

, Dorset

Dorset

Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...

, England. Located adjacent to the former Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath

Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath

The Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, , was set up at Holton Heath, Dorset in World War I to manufacture Cordite for the Royal Navy. It was reactivated in World War II to manufacture gun propellants for the Admiralty and its output was supplemented by the Royal Navy Propellant Factory,...

 that it was was opened during World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 to serve, the station did not open to the public until 1924.

History

Holton Heath has been unstaffed since 1964, and the signal box was removed 3 November 1969.

Description

With platforms are able to accommodate trains of up to 5 coaches, the station is one of the few remaining on the line not to be equipped with a self-service ticket machine, only a Permit to Travel

Permit to travel

In the ticketing system of the British rail network, a Permit to Travel provisionally allows passengers to travel on a train when they have not purchased a ticket in advance and the ticket office of the station they are travelling from is closed, without incurring a penalty fare.Since a large...

 machine. There is no ticket office at this station.

Services

The station is only served by London Waterloo to Weymouth

Weymouth railway station

Weymouth railway station is a railway station serving the town of Weymouth, Dorset, England. The station is the terminus of both the South Western Main Line from London Waterloo and the Heart of Wessex Line from and .-History:...

 semi-fast trains during the day. There are no services in the evening or on Sundays.