Bishopstoke to Gosport branch railway
railway
county:

Hampshire
refce: HANTSLOC.t
refce: Bradshaw 1841
from Eastleigh Station, Eastleigh
commentary: Bishopstoke to Gosport branch railway, from Bishopstoke - later Eastleigh, to Gosport and then by ferry to Portsmouth, Hampshire; authorised 1839, opened 29 November 1841 and closed 4 days later, reopened 7 February 1842; part of the London and South Western Railway, LSWR; from 1923, part of the Southern Railway, SR; from 1948, part of British Railways, BR.
Only parts in Hampshire are described; 'original' names for the lines are used. The line branches from the London and Southampton Railway at Bishopstoke - Eastleigh; runs through Hedge End Station, junction with the Bishops Waltham Railway, Botley Station, Tapnage Tunnel, Knowle Junction with Meon Valley Line, new tunnel under motorway, Fareham No.2 Tunnel, junction with Southampton and Netley Railway, Fareham Station, junction with the Fareham to Cosham branch railway which is now the main route; the old main line continued through Fort Brockhurst Station, junction with Lee-on-the-Solent Light Railway, Lees Lane Junction and Gosport Junction with the Stokes Bay Railway and Pier Co, to Gosport Station; the route was continued by the Gosport Ferry to Portsmouth.
This branch is shown under construction in Bradshaw's Railway Companion 1841, called the Portsmouth Junction Railway.
The railway was authorised by Act of Parliament:-
refce: 2-3 Victoria cap.28 1839
refce:
commentary: Experimental mapping data for the line, coordinates read from OS 1 to 25000 maps of Hampshire, to try the transfer of data from MODES to tables to be plotted in MapInfo - see:-
mapping LSWR Bishopstoke to Gosport
Associated with
person railway company: London and South Western Railway, LSWR
date 1839-1923
Associated with
person railway company: Southern Railway, SR
date 1923-1948
Associated with
person railway company: British Railways, BR
date 1948
   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001