Basingstoke Station

Basingstoke Station, Basingstoke
station, railway station





parish:
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coords:
LSWR Winchfield to Basingstoke
London and Southampton Railway
Basingstoke and Salisbury Railway
Berkshire and Hampshire Railway
Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway
Basingstoke
Hampshire
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refce: HANTSLOC.t

commentary: 47m 61ch from London Waterloo. This is an original station on the LSWR when it opened, 10 June 1839, on the line from London Vauxhall. The Winchester to Southampton section opened the same day but the gap had to be travelled by coach.
A GWR line from Reading joins the LSWR here. There was a branch to Alton. The main line divides 3 miles beyond Basingstoke, to go to Andover, Salisbury and Exeter, or by the original main line to Winchester and Southampton.

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001