Railway building
This is one of the very few Abbotsbury Branch buildings still intact ~ it was the goods shed, just to the east of the village station. The large doors at each end were high enough to allow a passenger coach to enter, but the main purpose of the shed was to unload goods from wagons brought there (or allowed to roll there, as the line was on a falling gradient) via a siding, while the main traffic could go back and forward uninterrupted.
A second siding was available in Abbotsbury for goods that might take time to load up, and proved especially useful during World War II ~ "wagonloads of ammunition were stored here well clear of Weymouth Harbour" * ~ not so clear, though, of Abbotsbury itself.