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The Lee-on-the-Solent Line was a three mile long railway in Hampshire, England; it was built by the Lee-on-the-Solent Railway Company, promoted in association...

the steamer berth there, negated the advantage. Also branching from the Gosport line was a branch to Lee-on-the-Solent, in support of a new seaside resort...

782982, -1.163868) is an area of the Solent that lies just south of Gosport, between Portsmouth and Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire. There is a shingle beach...

in Royal Clarence Yard for the use of Royal family and household, who would arrive here for the Solent crossing. For the next fifty years, Victoria and...

was, for the first six years after the opening of the line, the terminus of the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway (DNSR), until the line was extended...

intermittent discussion of reopening part of the Fawley branch line for passenger traffic. In June 2009 the Association of Train Operating Companies published...

Christchurch line relegated to branch status; it closed to all traffic in 1935. The Southampton and Dorchester line continued to carry all the trains to...

reopen the Fawley Branch Line had been resurrected as part of the redevelopment known as Fawley Waters. It proposed a half-hourly service on a Monday...

the owner's arguments, stating that, in his opinion, the new fast services were not "trains for the ordinary traffic and purposes of the branch line,...

Despite these economies, the line remained unprofitable. On 30 April 1961 the Solent Express, an excursion train chartered by the Locomotive Club of Great...

Railway (LSWR). The temporary station was closed when the line was completed and the permanent Southampton Terminus was opened on 11 May 1840. The need to open...

mile Hayling Island branch, a single track line from Havant which transported holidaymakers to the resort until its closure in 1963. The station had a small...

the A35 road over the line, it was initially the nearest station for the towns of Christchurch and Bournemouth. Coaches served these places until the...

William Tite. The LSWR added the much larger South Western Hotel building, designed by John Norton, in 1872. The line was extended into the Ocean Dock Terminal...

17 October 2016·to discuss current plans to re-open the branch line for passenger services. The line has been identified as a priority for reopening to...

motte and bailey, the first fortification of the peninsula, giving a vantage point over the Solent, Stokes Bay, Lee-on-the-Solent and the Isle of Wight....

was a small station on the Hayling Island branch. The station along with the rest of the line closed in 1963, and it served the Langstone area of Havant...

locations in the Solent area. There is a museum devoted to them at Lee-on-Solent to the East. The Hythe Village marina is situated to the north of the village...

which authorised the line. The station was initially an untimetabled private halt, but later was opened to the public and appeared on timetables from 15...

railway station was a railway station in the village of Cliddesden, Hampshire, UK. The station was a stop on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway until...