A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Portsmouth, showing the Southsea Railway
The Southsea Railway opened on 1 July 1885,[4] and on that line, Albert Road Bridge Halt was opened on 1 July 1904 and closed a decade later on 6 August 1914,[5] it was part of a concerted effort to boost revenue and thus see off competition from the burgeoning tramway network.[6] The Southsea Railway was jointly owned by the London and South Western Railway and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway,[7] and very unusually, the two companies ran the line in alternate years.[8] The final nail in the line's coffin was a government directive issued shortly after the declaration of war[1] that railways unable to support themselves would cease operations at the earliest opportunity; and, as the line clearly fell into this category, the last train ran early in August 1914.[3]
albert, road, bridge, halt, railway, station, confused, with, similarly, named, halt, plymouth, albert, road, bridge, halt, sometimes, called, highland, road, intermediate, station, situated, southsea, railway, between, jessie, road, bridge, halt, east, souths. Not to be confused with the similarly named halt in Plymouth Albert Road Bridge Halt sometimes called Highland Road 1 was an intermediate station situated on the Southsea Railway 2 between Jessie Road Bridge Halt 3 and East Southsea Albert Road Bridge HaltGeneral informationLocationSouthsea City of PortsmouthEnglandGrid referenceSZ656990Platforms1Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOpened1 July 1904 119 years ago 1904 07 01 Closed8 August 1914 109 years ago 1914 08 08 Original companySouthsea Railway vteRailways in the Portsmouth area Legend Portsmouth Direct Lineto London Waterloo via Guildford West Coastway Lineto Brighton amp London Victoria West Coastway Lineto Southampton Central Portchester Havant M27 Bedhampton Cosham A3 M Farlington Halt A27 Portsbridge Creek HMNB PortsmouthAdmiralty Line Hilsea Portsmouth amp Southsea Fratton Portsmouth Harbour Southsea Railway 1885 1914 Gosport Ferry to GosportWightlink to Ryde Pier Head Jessie Road Bridge Halt Albert Road Bridge Halt East Southsea A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Portsmouth showing the Southsea Railway The Southsea Railway opened on 1 July 1885 4 and on that line Albert Road Bridge Halt was opened on 1 July 1904 and closed a decade later on 6 August 1914 5 it was part of a concerted effort to boost revenue and thus see off competition from the burgeoning tramway network 6 The Southsea Railway was jointly owned by the London and South Western Railway and the London Brighton and South Coast Railway 7 and very unusually the two companies ran the line in alternate years 8 The final nail in the line s coffin was a government directive issued shortly after the declaration of war 1 that railways unable to support themselves would cease operations at the earliest opportunity and as the line clearly fell into this category the last train ran early in August 1914 3 Preceding station Disused railways Following station Jessie Road Bridge Halt Southsea Railway East Southsea Contents 1 See also 2 References 3 Further reading 4 External linksSee also editList of closed railway stations in BritainReferences edit a b Robertson K 1985 The Southsea Railway Southampton Kingfisher ISBN 0 946184 16 X Mitchell V Smith K December 1985 Woking to Portsmouth Midhurst Middleton Press ISBN 0 906520 25 8 a b Oppitz Leslie 1988 Hampshire railways remembered Newbury Countryside ISBN 1 85306 020 8 White H P 1992 1961 Thomas David St John Patmore J Allan eds Volume 2 Southern England A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain 5th ed Nairn David St John Thomas p 126 ISBN 0 946537 77 1 Butt R V J 1995 The Directory of Railway Stations Sparkford Patrick Stephens Ltd p 14 ISBN 1 85260 508 1 Petch M 1996 Portsmouth s tramways Midhurst Middleton Press ISBN 1 873793 72 3 Faulkner J N Williams R A 1988 The LSWR in the Twentieth Century Newton Abbot David amp Charles p 68 ISBN 0 7153 8927 0 Gates William George 1972 1925 Portsmouth in the past S R Publishers ISBN 0 85409 744 9 Further reading editDendy Marshall C F Kidner R W 1963 1937 History of the Southern Railway 2nd ed Shepperton Ian Allan pp 127 8 ISBN 0 7110 0059 X External links editIntermediate halts listed Bibliography 50 47 14 N 1 04 12 W 50 787313 N 1 070047 W 50 787313 1 070047 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Albert Road Bridge Halt railway station amp oldid 1173698895, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
