Jessie Road Bridge Halt railway station
Jessie Road Bridge Halt |
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Location |
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Place |
Fratton |
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Area |
City of Portsmouth |
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Grid reference |
SZ657996 |
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Operations |
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Original company |
Southsea Railway (1885 to 1914) |
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Pre-grouping |
L&SWR/LB&SCR[1] |
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Platforms |
1 |
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History |
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1 October 1904 |
Opened |
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8 August 1914 |
Closed |
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Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom |
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Jessie Road Bridge Halt[2] was an intermediate station situated on the Southsea Railway[3] between Fratton[4] and Albert Road Bridge Halt (sometimes called Highland Road[5]).
Opened in 1904 and closed a decade later it was part of a concerted effort to boost revenue and thus see off competition from the burgeoning tramway network.[6] The station's only platform was on the down line, the up line being out of use.[7] The final nail in the line's coffin was a government directive issued shortly after the declaration of war[8] 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.[9]
Railways in the Portsmouth area |
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References
- ↑ Very unusually, the two companies ran the line in alternate years "Portsmouth in the past"Gates,W:Portsmouth, S.P, 1925 rpr1972 ISBN 0-85409-744-9
- ↑ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 129.
- ↑ Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (December 1985). Southern Main Lines: Woking to Portsmouth. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 0-906520-25-8.
- ↑ "Hampshire railways remembered" Oppitz,L Newbury, Countryside 1988 ISBN 1-85306-020-8
- ↑ "The Southsea Railway" Robertson,K: Southampton, Kingfisher, 1985 ISBN 0-946184-16-X
- ↑ ”Portsmouth’s tramways” Petch,M: Midhurst, Middleton Press,1996 ISBN 1-873793-72-3
- ↑ Kidner, R. W. (1985). Southern Railway Halts. Survey and Gazetteer. Headington, Oxford: The Oakwood Press. p. 39. ISBN 0-85361-321-4.
- ↑ Robertson (Ibid)
- ↑ Oppitz (Ibid)
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Coordinates: 50°47′34″N 1°04′07″W / 50.792697°N 1.068521°W / 50.792697; -1.068521