Portland Branch Railway
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portland-branch-railway-180-2664062
title:
Portland Branch Railway
text:
The Portland Branch railway refers to a group of lines on the Isle of Portland in the English county of Dorset. The first was the Portland Railway, a tramway with a counterbalanced rope-worked incline. It opened in 1826. It was followed by the Weymouth and Portland Railway, which connected to the main line of the Great Western Railway at Weymouth. It opened in 1865. From the late 1840s until 1872, Portland Breakwater was built, a prodigious construction task that created a very large safe harbou
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Disused railway line in Dorset, England
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Branch_Railway
date created:
2007-05-12T22:45:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T08:58:43Z
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