The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-01-16 00:00:00

PARKS roNII.
RAILWAY MATTERS.

No great undertaking for the welfare or convenience of
the Public can be proposed which d ram not involve mum
coasti g interests, pro luctive of gam or loss to
individed parsing, and the convenience of some most
generally be 'severed t the !onset of the majority.
In no cue is this exemphatel more than in that of
whereas for improvul railway commumication, of which
we have an unfortunat I example in the plum to be laid
before Parliament for new lines in this neighbourhood,
which hid fair to he ruined through the hostility of • few
interest el individuals and the apathy of others. There
can he no question that a rout Ilk, this teeming with
popolous towns and villages from id ruthampton on the
Rat, to Wermouth on the West. requires, and
ought to have, some direct railway commturioation
along, or running more or less parallel with it.
The South Western Railway was unfortunately made
pietas-meal, and for the greater part before some of thees
towns bad assumed their present onportanete, and conse-
quently Lymingtin, Biurnemouth, and Poole are con-
nected With the main-line only by means of circuitous and
, inconvenient brute& lines, which necusuily involve muck
lost of time, and mace the communication between some
of these coast towns to be • matter of hours when it
-might rather count by minutes if a direct lino existed.
Tuts to get from P to Caristchurch or from Christ-
i church to Lymington involve* as much calculation and
consultation of timetable, as to get from London to
Glasgow, and is then • most lengthy and tedious expedi-
tion. This defect in It. cyst In it is proposed by the Mouth-
West nu Company to overcome to • great extent by a
loop-line connecting the Bast and West station at Bourne-
mouth. By this means at any-rate direct communica-
tion would be established between Poole and Cadet-
clourelo ; and Pods and Parkstons would be brought
coneiderahly nearer London, both in Gine and distant*,
than they are at present. This scheme uefortunately
does not end favour in 11 turuernouth, to which the
benefit it would cause would be too email to arouse the
enthusiasts or ensure the support of the majority,
. while the inetnirenienes to the few, the quiet of whose
hums would be disturbed by their proximity to the
new line arouses their determined opposition. We can
, hardly expect the Bournemouth weathies to take much
Into consideration the claims or the coevenience of our
Dorset town,. and it therefore devidres entirely nub
Poole and Palliatione to look alter their interests in the
matter and strenuously to support a whame which I.
so vital to their ultimate prosperity, and we ahoutt
have been better satisfied if the Poole Municipal Authorities bad proved themeelves to be alive to their
responsibilities in this matter, sod had shown more
activity in suntiortieg and promotine the present
scheme. After much contention between divided opinions at Bournemouth, the scheme of the Didoot Ritiwal
appears to be practically secure of the local support, but
however convenient it may be to Boor/unleash itself to
have connection with the Great Western Railway Button,
and to g•lo the advent ores which actin from a h-althy
competition brtween different tompenies. the Didcot
Rail .1111/ scheme even if carried out in its entirety. and
having its terminus as proposed in Dun Park, could be of no wreath's utility to Poole or ite neighbourhood. unless
the ff.. ware continued beyond Boornemouth In this
direction, which would never be done unless the proposed
loop-line of thefinal-Weetern Railway were carried oat.
'ln which on.. it is probable that the Didoot amionne
would obtain running powers over it. Thus front every point of view the ancesee of the South-Western loop-
eoloune, is absolutely nwrelearY to Mlle V ere met) be broiled men owls on awe TA" aux wt.