Melcombe Regis railway stationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Melcombe Regis was a station on the Portland Branch Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. Opened in April 1909, it was sited at the north end of the bridge over Radipole Lake. The station was built to enable Portland branch passengers to go to Weymouth without the need for the branch train to reverse to enter Weymouth railway station. The branch junction was to the north of Weymouth station and faced Dorchester. The station closed officially with the branch on 3 March 1952. However the station continued to be used for overflow from the adjacent Weymouth station. particularly on summer Saturdays, regularly until 12 September 1959, and irregularly for a while after that.