Albert Road Bridge Halt railway station

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Albert Road Bridge Halt
General information
Location Southsea, City of Portsmouth
England
Grid reference SZ656990
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Opened1 July 1904;121 years ago (1904-07-01)
Closed8 August 1914;111 years ago (1914-08-08)
Original company Southsea Railway
Location
Albert Road Bridge Halt railway station
A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Portsmouth, showing the Southsea Railway Havant & Portsmouth RJD 11.jpg
A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Portsmouth, showing the Southsea Railway

Albert Road Bridge Halt (sometimes called Highland Road) [1] was an intermediate station situated on the Southsea Railway, [2] between Jessie Road Bridge Halt [3] and East Southsea.

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The Southsea Railway opened on 1 July 1885, [4] and on that line, Albert Road Bridge Halt was opened on 1 July 1904 and closed a decade later on 6 August 1914, [5] it was part of a concerted effort to boost revenue and thus see off competition from the burgeoning tramway network. [6] The Southsea Railway was jointly owned by the London and South Western Railway and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, [7] and very unusually, the two companies ran the line in alternate years. [8] The final nail in the line's coffin was a government directive issued shortly after the declaration of war [1] that railways unable to support themselves would cease operations at the earliest opportunity; and, as the line clearly fell into this category, the last train ran early in August 1914. [3]

Preceding stationDisused railwaysFollowing station
Jessie Road
Bridge Halt 		  Southsea Railway   East Southsea

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Robertson, K. (1985). The Southsea Railway. Southampton: Kingfisher. ISBN   0-946184-16-X.
  2. ↑ Mitchell, V.; Smith, K. (December 1985). Woking to Portsmouth. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN   0-906520-25-8.
  3. 1 2 Oppitz, Leslie (1988). Hampshire railways remembered. Newbury: Countryside. ISBN   1-85306-020-8.
  4. ↑ White, H. P. (1992) [1961]. Thomas, David St John; Patmore, J. Allan (eds.). Volume 2: Southern England. A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain (5th ed.). Nairn: David St John Thomas. p. 126. ISBN   0-946537-77-1.
  5. ↑ Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 14. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
  6. ↑ Petch, M. (1996). Portsmouth's tramways. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN   1-873793-72-3.
  7. ↑ Faulkner, J. N.; Williams, R. A. (1988). The LSWR in the Twentieth Century. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 68. ISBN   0-7153-8927-0.
  8. ↑ Gates, William George (1972) [1925]. Portsmouth in the past. S. R. Publishers. ISBN   0-85409-744-9.

Further reading

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