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ノスタルジーに浸る旅に出発！シリングストーン駅は、ドーセットの田園地帯にひっそりと佇む、美しく保存された1950年代のタイムカプセルのようです。かつては伝説的なサマセット＆ドーセット合同鉄道（通称「スロー・アンド・ダーティ」）の重要な駅でしたが、現在は献身的なボランティアチームによって愛情を込めて修復されています。オリジナルのプラットフォームを散策したり、ヴィンテージの信号扱所を探検したり、改造された鉄道車両でお茶を飲むこともできます。ノース・ドーセット・トレイルウェイのハイカーが通り過ぎる中、映画「逢びき」のエキストラになった気分を味わうのに最適な場所です。今日はバース行きの列車はありませんが、雰囲気はまさに最高です！

Great place to hike/run all year round

Pop into the cricketers pub before or after your hike it’s in the village (shroton)

Only opens from Weds to Sunday

Try the food at the station lovely pasties

Shillingstone railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR), serving the village of Shillingstone in the English county of Dorset. Shillingstone is the last surviving example of a station built by the Dorset Central Railway (one of the forerunners of the S&DJR). The station closed in 1966, when services were withdrawn from the S&DJR route. Since 2001, enthusiasts have been working to re-open the station as a heritage railway attraction.[1] The main building has now been renovated, and opened to the public as a museum, shop and refreshment room in 2008.[ The station was opened on 31 August 1863 by the Somerset and Dorset Railway, although planned and designed by one of its two predecessors, the Dorset Central Railway. Initial train services were provided by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR). In 1875, the Midland Railway and the LSWR together took over a joint lease of the line, forming the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.

Views , views and more views

The hill is now a National Nature Reserve (NNR) with common plants including milkwort, salad burnet, horseshoe vetch, squinancywort, pyramidal orchid and wild thyme. Rarer species include bastard toadflax, meadow saxifrage, early gentian and dwarf sedge. Butterflies include dingy skipper, grizzled skipper, chalkhill blue and Adonis blue. In August 2014, Hambledon Hill fort was acquired by the National Trust for £450,000. The money to buy the hill had come from a Natural England grant and a legacy gift left to benefit Dorset countryside. The hillfort is a Scheduled Monument, as is the adjacent Neolithic causewayed camp.