NR^» (Network Rail - home page) are relaying track between Maiden Newton and Chetnole next month. The line will be closed for five days in order to replace 758m of 70 year old track.

https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2023/09/heart-of-wessex-line-to-close-for-five-days-in-october.html

From Monday, 16 to Friday, 20 October, engineers will be working around the clock to replace approximately 758 metres of 70-year-old track between Maiden Newton and Chetnole in Cattistock. The work is required because the present track is outdated and in need of renewal so that it can brought up to modern standards. This will help reduce the number of speed restrictions that are imposed during hot weather, and help to ensure more reliable and smoother journeys.

... So, that track in use since 1953, and... (Imagines the traffic it's seen, the part it's played in people's lives, the generations of railway staff, the thought that some of those staff will have been in the final years of their career and possibly have experience of the railways as they were at the end of the 19th Century)

Mark

Cattistock is 1mile north of Maiden Newton. There used to be a halt there back in the day. Its concrete platforms were used to replace the old wooden ones at Thornford and Chetnole.
Just across the road is the village’s cricket ground where I used to spend many hours playing the game when living in Maiden Newton