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Latitude: 50.679 / 50°40'44"N
Longitude: -2.0897 / 2°5'23"W
OS Eastings: 393755
OS Northings: 86592
OS Grid: SY937865
Mapcode National: GBR 331.6J6
Mapcode Global: FRA 67H8.ZN1
Plus Code: 9C2VMWH6+H4
Entry Name: Ridge Locomotive Shed
Listing Date: 4 February 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376769
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469054
ID on this website: 101376769
Location: Ridge, Dorset, BH20
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Arne
Built-Up Area: Ridge
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Wareham Lady St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SY 98 NW
235/6/10006
ARNE
RIDGE
Ridge Locomotive Shed
II
Railway locomotive shed. Circa 1870-80, built for Pike Bros. Brick. Slate roof with gabled ends. Small rectangular on plan building. Wooden sliding entrance doors at north end. Window on either side with cambered brick arch. Ventilator on ridge of roof.
INTERIOR said to have retained water tank. It is one of the earliest known narrow gauge locomotive sheds. Pike Bros built a horse drawn railway in 1833-9 from clay deposits at Blue Pool, to Ridge, east of Wareham on the River Frome, where a short canal gave access to the rail head. The clay was taken by barge to Poole Quay. The line was laid as edge rails of about 4ft gauge. It was extended to the banks of the River Frome, and by 1863 the line had been extended westwards to Creech. In 1866 the first railway locomotive used the line which was re-gauged to 2ft 8". The line to Ridge remained in use until the Second World War and the whole line was closed in 1959. One of the original users of the shed, the engine Secundus' [1874] survives in the Birmingham Museum of Science and Industry. The shed might have been built especially to house Secundus.
SOURCE: Wilmott, M. Unpublished research.
Listing NGR: SY9375586592
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