London and Southampton Railway

railway
county:

Hampshire

refce: HANTSLOC.t

commentary: London and Southampton Railway, from London to Southampton, Hampshire; authorized 25 July 1834, open Nine Elms - Vauxhall to Woking Common 19 May 1838 with a public opening 21st, from there to Shapley Heath - Winchfield 24 September 1838, from there to Basingstoke and the section from Winchester to Southampton 10 June 1839, and completed by the section Basingstoke to Winchester 11 May 1840; the London end was extended to Waterloo 11 July 1848. The railway was renamed the London and South Western Railway, LSWR, 1839; became part of the Southern Railway, SR, from 1923; and part of British Railways, BR, from 1948.
The company was incorporated to build a railway by Act of Parliament:-
refce: 4-5 William 4 cap.88 1834
7 William 4 and 1 Victoria cap.71 1837
The railway was the foundation of the LSWR; it was renamed that in part of:-
refce: 2-3 Victoria cap.28 1839
The railway was merged into the Southern Railway by:-
refce: 11-12 George 5 cap.55 sch.1 1921
and acquired by the British Transport Commission by:-
refce: 10-11 George 6 cap.49 sch.3 part 1 1947
Only parts in Hampshire are described in detail; 'original' names for the lines are used. The line enters Hampshire on a railway viaduct over the Blackwater River, Rushmoor; runs through Farnborough Station, Fleet Station, Winchfield Station, Hook Station, Basinstoke GWR Junction with Berkshire and Hampshire Railway, Basingstoke Station, junction with Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway - gone, Worting Junction and Battledown Flyover over the Basingstoke and Salisbury Railway, Litchfield Tunnel, Popham No.1 Tunnel, Popham No.2 Tunnel, Micheldever Station, Wallers Ash Tunnel, junctions and crossing at Kings Worthy with Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway and Mid Hants Railway - both gone, Winchester Station, junction with Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway - gone, Shawford Station, junction with Eastleigh and Salisbury Railway, Eastleigh Station, junction with Bishopstoke to Gosport branch railway, Southampton Parkway Station for Southampton Airport at Eastleigh, Swaythling Station, St Denys's Station, junction with Southampton and Netley branch railway, junction with Southampton and Dorchester Railway (now the main route to Southampton Central Station), to Southampton Terminus Station which is now gone, but the site is the on the freight line to Ocean Terminal.
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commentary: Experimental data, Mapping data for the line, is recorded in separate records. The coordinates were read from OS 1 to 25000 maps of Hampshire. The data is recorded to try the transfer of data from MODES to 'tables' to be plotted in a GIS system, MapInfo. See:-
mapping LSWR Farnborough to Winchfield
mapping LSWR Winchfield to Basingstoke
mapping LSWR Basingstoke to Winchester
mapping LSWR Winchester to Southampton

Associated with
person railway company: London and Southampton Railway
date 1834-1839

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