Upwey railway station, Dorset
Upwey 
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| Location | |
| Place | Upwey |
| Local authority | Borough of Weymouth and Portland |
| Coordinates | 50°38′53″N 2°27′58″W / 50.648°N 2.466°WCoordinates: 50°38′53″N 2°27′58″W / 50.648°N 2.466°W |
| Grid reference | SY671832 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | UPW |
| Managed by | South West Trains |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 49,522 |
| 2012/13 |
 47,614 |
| 2013/14 |
49,414 |
| 2014/15 |
47,936 |
| 2015/16 |
44,042 |
| History | |
| Original company | Great Western Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| 19 April 1886 | Opened as Upwey Junction |
| 1952 | Abbotsbury branch closed |
| 1 December 1952 | Renamed Upwey and Broadwey |
| 12 May 1980 | Renamed Upwey |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Upwey from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Upwey railway station is a railway station serving the urban areas of Broadwey, Upwey and Littlemoor which are northern suburbs of Weymouth, England. The station is situated on both the London Waterloo-Weymouth and the Bristol-Weymouth routes and is often used by passengers to change between the two.
The first station near this location, simply named Upwey, was opened in 1871 by the Great Western Railway (GWR). On 19 April 1886 that station was replaced by the current station, then named Upwey Junction, a railway junction that opened south of the original station to provide access to the single track Abbotsbury branch. The branch was absorbed into the GWR and survived for 66 years before closure under British Railways in 1952. On the closure of the branch Upwey Junction was renamed Upwey and Broadwey on 1 December 1952, and took its current name, Upwey, on 12 May 1980.
During the Network SouthEast era, the station was refurbished with the trademark red lighting poles, station benches and monitor screens for train arrivals. Rubble from the rebuilt Weymouth station was used to fill in the former Abbotsbury platform for use as a car park. This was done in time for the extension of electrification from Bournemouth to Weymouth in 1988.
Two further stations had Upwey in their name. To the north of Upwey Junction existed a halt called Upwey Wishing Well Halt, while around the bend on the Abbotsbury branch was a station which had originally been called Broadwey. However its name was changed to Upwey as it kept being confused with Broadway, Worcestershire, also on the Great Western Railway.
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