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Hythe (Hants) railway station in Hampshire was an intermediate station on the Totton, Hythe and Fawley Light Railway, which was built along the coast of Southampton Water to connect Totton and Fawley and to provide a freight link from the South West Main Line to Fawley Refinery.
Fawley railway station was the terminus of the Totton, Hythe and Fawley Light Railway, which was built along the coast of Southampton Water to connect Totton and Fawley and to provide a freight link from the South West Main Line to Fawley Refinery.
Marchwood railway station was an intermediate station on the Totton, Hythe and Fawley Light Railway, which was built along the coast of Southampton Water to connect Totton and Fawley and to provide a freight link from the South West Main Line to Fawley Refinery. It was 86 miles 10 chains measured from London Waterloo.
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The Eastleigh to Salisbury line is the railway line from Eastleigh through Romsey to Salisbury in Hampshire, England. It was constructed by the London and South Western Railway in 1857 from Bishopstoke; the station changed its name to Eastleigh in 1889. At Salisbury the line ran to Milford station on the south-eastern margin of the city, but in 1859 and extension to the present-day Salisbury station was built, and the lines from Andover through Salisbury to Yeovil were connected.
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- ↑ "Disused Stations:Hardley Halt". disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- ↑ "Reopen these rail lines and put 500,000 people in reach of the railways". Campaign for Better Transport.
- ↑ "Waterside Rail Re-Opening Strategic Outline Business Case" (PDF). Hampshire County Council. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ↑ "Progress on Fawley reopening, but plans scaled back". Rail Magazine. 24 March 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
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