The Hayling Island branch was a short railway branch line in Hampshire, England, that connected a station on Hayling Island with the main line network...
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North Hayling station was a halt on the single track Hayling Island branch, most often used to load oysters caught by local fishermen, but also ornithologists...
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Hayling Island (called South Hayling until 1892) was a station on Hayling Island in southeastern Hampshire, England. It was opened for passengers in 1867...
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LB&SCR A1 class (section Main line operation)
engines were known as "Hayling Billy" on account of their work on the Hayling Island branch line. A pub of this name on the island was briefly home to the...
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Memories of the Hayling Island Branch:Produced by Ian Heys for "Branch Line Videos", Catalogue Number 418-514424 "Branch Line to Hayling" Mitchell,V./Smith...
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Junction for the L&SWR Portsmouth Direct line through Petersfield and also for the LBSCR Hayling Island branch line opened 16 July 1867, 4.5 miles (7.2 km)...
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The Hayling Seaside Railway, formerly East Hayling Light Railway, is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway on Hayling Island, Hampshire, England. It is...
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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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Saturdays to give good connections to the Isle of Wight and to Hayling Island. In 1947 the line carried 7.25 million passengers, compared to 3 million in 1936...
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from the South Hayling Goods shed at the end of the Hayling Billy trail on the disused Hayling Island branch line. The Hayling Island Community Centre...
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Langstone Bridge (redirect from Hayling Island Bridge)
Langstone Bridge (also known as Hayling Bridge) connects Hayling Island with the English mainland of Hampshire. The name of the bridge is derived from...
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any city in the UK outside of London. To the east of Portsea Island lies Hayling Island, separated by Langstone Harbour. To the west is the peninsular...
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Booklet no 26, 2020, pages 14 to 16 John Scott-Morgan, The Hayling Island Branch – the Hayling Billy, Pen and Sword Transport, Barnsley, 2019, ISBN 978-1-5267-2682-7...
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started a rail freight ferry link between the Hayling Island Branch Line at Langstone and the Bembridge branch line at St Helens quay. To provide the link the...
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passenger carriage built by British Railways. S1000S was used on the Hayling Island Branch Line until closure in 1963. After use as a generator van at Lancing...
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to Bognor Regis in 1864, and to Hayling Island in 1867. The line from Havant to Hayling had been built by the Hayling Railway, but it was leased to the...
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to the Hayling Island branch line also started at this point. In 1889, the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway (FYN) opened its 12-mile line from Newport...
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Gosport and Cosham lines (redirect from Fareham to Gosport Line)
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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Isle of Wight Railway (section Bembridge branch)
Langstone is the spelling of the location; the railway station on the Hayling Island branch line was named Langston. White refers to this on page 151 as the Bembridge...
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The Hayling Ferry is a foot passenger ferry across the mouth of Langstone Harbour linking the Ferry Point on the west tip of Hayling Island with Eastney...
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Ringwood railway station (section Line today)
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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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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Hayling Billy is a 42-hectare (100-acre) Local Nature Reserve on Hayling Island in Hampshire. It is owned by Hampshire County Council and managed by Hampshire...
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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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Dorchester Railway. Sited next to a bridge carrying the A35 road over the line, it was initially the nearest station for the towns of Christchurch and Bournemouth...
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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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Northney (category Hayling Island)
island, east of where the A3023 meets the shore of the island and north of North Hayling. Hayling Island marina is nearby. The local parish church, St Peter's...
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Sussex Railway has hosted a variety of heritage rolling stock since the line was closed by British Railways in 1961. Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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larger South Western Hotel building, designed by John Norton, in 1872. The line was extended into the Ocean Dock Terminal to allow boat trains to terminate...
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started a rail freight ferry link between the Hayling Island Branch line at Langstone and the Bembridge branch line at St Helens quay. To provide the link the...
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