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East Southsea railway station was the terminus of the 1.25 mile[2]) Southsea Railway which linked the resort with the main line from London at Fratton[3]. The only discrete station until 1904 (when Jessie Road and Albert Road[4]) it was initially a success[5], but was unable to compete with the burgeoning tramway network[6]. The final nail in the line's coffin was a government directive issued shortly after the declaration of war[7]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[8].
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- ^ Very unusually, the two companies ran the line in alternate years "Portsmouth in the past"Gates,W:Portsmouth, S.P, 1925 rpr1972 ISBN 0854097449
- ^ "The Southsea Railway" Robertson,K: Southampton, Kingfisher, 1985 ISBN 094618416X
- ^ ”Woking to Portsmouth” Mitchell,V/Smith,K: Midhurst, Middleton Press,1984 ISBN 1873793381
- ^ "Hampshire railways remembered" Oppitz,L Newbury, Countryside 1988 ISBN 1853060208
- ^ Despite being 0.25 miles from the coast
- ^ ”Portsmouth’s tramways” Petch,M: Midhurst, Middleton Press,1996 ISBN 1873793723
- ^ Robertson (Ibid)
- ^ Oppitz (Ibid)
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50°46′58″N, 1°4′25″WCoordinates: 50°46′58″N, 1°4′25″W
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