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    The Fawley branch line, also known as the Waterside line, is a standard-gauge railway line to Fawley, in the English county of Hampshire. It is on the...
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  • 1945 Fawley Court, a manor house and estate in Fawley, Buckinghamshire, U.K. Fawley branch line, a railway line to Fawley, Hampshire, U.K. Fawley A.F.C...
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    Fawley Refinery is an oil refinery located at Fawley, Hampshire, England. The refinery is owned by Esso Petroleum Company Limited, a subsidiary of Exxon...
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    village in the evenings. Marchwood railway station opened on the Fawley Branch Line beside Main Road on 20 July 1925. The station was closed by the Beeching...
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    Littlestone-on-Sea, and a Sunday-only service on the Fawley Branch Line. All of these routes except for the Marshlink Line had been closed by 1967, by which time the...
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    revealed that plans to reopen the Fawley Branch Line had been resurrected as part of the redevelopment known as Fawley Waters. It proposed a half-hourly...
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    shelved indefinitely. Windermere Branch Line: In August 2013, the Department for Transport announced that the branch line between Oxenholme and Windermere...
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    the site. It is connected to the national railway network via the Fawley branch line, allowing freight trains to access the port and is regularly used...
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  • Hardley Halt was a railway station on the Fawley branch line. The station was opened on 5 April 1954 and was closed to passengers on 5 April 1965 (11 years...
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    2016 There has been intermittent discussion of reopening part of the Fawley branch line for passenger traffic. In June 2009 the Association of Train Operating...
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    of the line is double track. A couple of miles from the Waterloo terminus, the line runs briefly alongside the Brighton Main Line west branch out of London...
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    The Coley branch line (ELR:COY), also known as the Coley goods branch, was a single-track branch railway running 1 mile 61 chains (1.76 miles, 2.84 km)...
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  • ferry crossing, in 1840. The LSWR later extended its line to Portsmouth itself by a branch line from Fareham, and joined forces with a competitor, the...
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    and the subsequent grouping. It became the junction station for the Fawley Branch Line, which opened in 1925. Following nationalisation of the railways in...
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    Stour. The line was opened in 1846 by the South Eastern Railway (SER). The SER's route included reversing at Ramsgate to take a branch line to Margate...
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    UK Ultraspeed was a proposed high-speed magnetic-levitation train line between London and Glasgow, linking 16 stations including Edinburgh, Birmingham...
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    The Alton line is a railway line in Hampshire and Surrey, England, operated by South Western Railway; it is a relatively long branch of the South West...
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    Eton and the Staines–Windsor railway lines. The scheme also includes a branch to Heathrow Terminal 5, with a potential connection to Crossrail. In 2018...
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    plan to re-open the Fawley Branch Line, connecting Hythe and Fawley to Southampton. In 2020, a test train was run down the line by South Western Railway...
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    Totton and Fawley and to provide a freight link from the South West Main Line to Fawley Refinery. The station opened on 20 July 1925 and closed to passengers...
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    the line, the terminus of the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway (DNSR), until the line was extended to link up with the Southern Railway line to...
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    to Christchurch line relegated to branch status; it closed to all traffic in 1935. The Southampton and Dorchester line continued to carry all the trains...
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    closed during the electrification of the London Waterloo to Bournemouth line. Originally, the closure was meant to be temporary, pending completion of...
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    expected completion date. Of the western branch of the spine from Oxford, only the Coventry to Leamington Line (9 miles) was initially prioritized for...
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  • in Great Britain Beeching cuts Morrison, Brian (ed.). "The Meldon Quarry Branch". Modern Railways Pictorial, 1986. Ian Allan. p. 16. ISBN 0-7110-1510-4...
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    the following year, he negotiated the construction of an extension of the line through the town ramparts to a private station, the Royal Victoria Station...
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    section of the line north of Droxford was closed, reducing Droxford to being the terminus of a short 9+3⁄4-mile (15.7 km) branch line. In early 1955 the...
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    original on 6 January 2005. Retrieved 9 March 2008. Mitchell V. & Smith K., "Branch Lines around Wimborne", Middleton Press, 1997. Robertson, Kevin, ed. (2008)...
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    Langston 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...
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  • its closure in 1917. The London and North Western Railway completed its line from Stockport Edgeley to Northenden in 1866. The station was opened on 1...
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