Portsdown and Horndean Light Railway

railway
county:

Hampshire

marked on County Series maps Hants 1910s-30s
refce: JandMN

commentary: Light railway south of Cosham Station to near Horndean.
Authorised by an Order of the Light Railway Commission under the Light Railway Act 1896, in 1899.
The route was from a junction with the street tramway system on the Portsmouth Road, south of Cosham Station, Portsmouth, going north and north east, skirts Cosham and becomes street railway along the London Road, passes a railway depot,and stopped short of Horndean.

mapping: goes through
Portsmouth
-- SU656048
Portsmouth
-- SU657058
-- SU660061
Horndean
-- SU666064
-- SU674086
-- SU683094
Horndean
-- SU690108
Horndean
-- SU698126
-- SU702128

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001