History
The Swanage Railway follows the route of the former London and South Western Railway line from Wareham to Swanage, a line that opened in 1885 and was closed by British Rail in 1972. From the time of closure, a strong campaign to reopen the railway as a steam locomotive operated heritage railway developed, and the Swanage Railway began operating a steam service at the Swanage end of the line in 1982.
The original line did not have a station at Herston Halt, and the current station was opened at Easter 1984 by the Swanage Railway as a temporary terminus for the line. Opened as a simple wooden platform construction which takes two coaches, the platform has now been dismantled and has been replaced with a concrete platform that reopened on Good Friday 2009 - 25 years after the original opening.
Read more about this topic: Herston Halt Railway Station
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