Kingsley Halt railway station

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Kingsley Halt
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General information
Location Kingsley, East Hampshire, Hampshire
England
Grid reference SU788391
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-grouping London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping Southern Railway
Southern Region of British Railways
Key dates
7 March 1906Opened
16 September 1957Closed to passenger traffic
4 April 1966Line closed entirely
Location
Kingsley Halt railway station

Kingsley Halt was a railway station on the Bordon Light Railway which served the village of Kingsley, Hampshire, England. The station had been constructed by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) in the hope that the area would attract residential development, but this did not happen. The LSWR had purchased an area of land far larger than that what was actually used, as they hoped to construct a large station and goods yard. A primitive halt with a single platform opened some months after the line's opening, consisting merely of a nameboard, noticeboard, lamp and seat. [1]

Contents

Declining passenger traffic and reduced military activities at Bordon after the Second World War saw the line's closure to regular services in 1957. [2] Kingsley Halt was demolished soon after closure, and nothing now remains except the shape of the trackbed, now used as a farm track. [1]

Preceding stationDisused railwaysFollowing station
Bentley   British Rail
Southern Region
Bordon Light Railway 		  Bordon

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Harding, Peter A. (1987). The Bordon Light Railway. Woking, Surrey: Peter A. Harding. ISBN   0-9509414-3-3.
  2. ↑ Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 250. OCLC   931112387.

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