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Portsmouth Direct Line to London Waterloo via Guildford West Coastway Line to Brighton & London Victoria West Coastway Line to Southampton Central Portchester Havant M27 Bedhampton Cosham A3(M) Farlington Halt A27 Portsbridge Creek HMNB Portsmouth Admiralty Line Hilsea Portsmouth & Southsea Fratton Portsmouth Harbour Southsea Railway 1885–1914 Gosport Ferry to Gosport Wightlink to Ryde Pier Head Jessie Road Bridge Halt Albert Road Bridge Halt East Southsea

Albert Road Bridge Halt (sometimes called Highland Road) was an intermediate station situated on the Southsea Railway, between Jessie Road Bridge Halt and East Southsea.

The Southsea Railway opened on 1 July 1885, and on that line, Albert Road Bridge Halt was opened on 1 July 1904 and closed a decade later on 6 August 1914, it was part of a concerted effort to boost revenue and thus see off competition from the burgeoning tramway network. The Southsea Railway was jointly owned by the London and South Western Railway and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, and very unusually, the two companies ran the line in alternate years. The final nail in the line's coffin was a government directive issued shortly after the declaration of war 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.

See also

• List of closed railway stations in Britain

References

1. ^ Robertson, K. (1985). The Southsea Railway. Southampton: Kingfisher. ISBN 0-946184-16-X.
2. Mitchell, V.; Smith, K. (December 1985). Woking to Portsmouth. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 0-906520-25-8.
3. ^ Oppitz, Leslie (1988). Hampshire railways remembered. Newbury: Countryside. ISBN 1-85306-020-8.
4. White, H.P. (1992) . 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.
5. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 14. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
6. Petch, M. (1996). Portsmouth's tramways. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-873793-72-3.
7. Faulkner, J.N.; Williams, R.A. (1988). The LSWR in the Twentieth Century. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 68. ISBN 0-7153-8927-0.
8. Gates, William George (1972) . Portsmouth in the past. S.R. Publishers. ISBN 0-85409-744-9.

Further reading

• Dendy Marshall, C.F.; Kidner, R.W. (1963) . History of the Southern Railway (2nd ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan. pp. 127–8. ISBN 0-7110-0059-X.

External links

• Intermediate halts listed
• Bibliography

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• Disused railway stations in Portsmouth
• Former Portsmouth and Ryde Joint Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1904
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1914