Editing Wimborne Minster (section)

==Transport==
From 1847 to 1977 Wimborne was served by a two-platform [[Wimborne railway station|railway station]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sdjr.net/locations/wimborne.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050315155327/http://www.sdjr.net/locations/wimborne.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=15 March 2005|title=Wimborne Railway Station|access-date=24 October 2018}}</ref> The station was built for the [[Southampton and Dorchester Railway]], later part of the [[London and South Western Railway]]. It was expanded when the [[Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway]] was constructed between [[Bath Green Park railway station|Bath]] and [[Poole railway station|Poole]]. Wimborne was used as a reversing point on the Somerset and Dorset, but its importance was reduced when an avoiding line was built from [[Bailey Gate railway station|Bailey Gate]] to [[Broadstone (Dorset) railway station|Broadstone Junction]]. The station had a large goods yard, the site of which is used for the weekly Wimborne Market. The station was closed to passengers in 1964 and sundries (parcels and light goods) in 1966, as a result of the [[Beeching Axe]] programme.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sdrt.org.uk/resources/history.htm|title=History of the Somerset and Dorset joint railway|access-date=24 October 2018}}</ref> The final goods trains ran in May 1977.

Buses now serve as the only means of public transport to and from Wimborne. [[Wilts & Dorset]] subsidiary Morebus operates half-hourly routes 4 to [[Poole]] and 13 to [[Bournemouth]].