NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Portsmouth Direct Line

The Portsmouth Direct Line is a service operated by South West Trains between runs from London Waterloo and Portsmouth Harbour. Trains use the same tracks between London and a junction south of Woking as the South Western Main Line, and then branch off. A Class 458 unit at Virginia Water station in April 2004. ... The facade of Waterloo Station. ... Portsmouth Harbour railway station is a railway station in Portsmouth, located beside Gunwharf Quays in the citys harbour; home to the Royal Navy, and an important transport terminal. ... Woking railway station is a railway station in England, serving the town of Woking, Surrey. ... The South Western Main Line is the railway line from London Waterloo to Weymouth on the Dorset coast. ...

History

The earliest railway to reach Portsmouth - in reality Gosport on the opposite side of Portsmouth Harbour - was via a London and South Western Railway (LSWR) branch via Fareham to Eastleigh and thence via Winchester to London. other places of this name include Gosport, Indiana and Gosport, Ontario Gosport is a town and district in Hampshire with around 78,000 inhabitants, situated on the south coast of England. ... The London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1840 to 1923. ... Map sources for Fareham at grid reference SU581063 Arms of Fareham Borough Council The market town of Fareham lies in the south east of Hampshire, between the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth, roughly in the centre of the South Hampshire conurbation. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Winchester Cathedral as seen from Cathedral Close Winchester is a city in southern England, and the administrative capital of the county of Hampshire, with a population of around 35,200. ... St. ...

The first section of the direct route was opened to Guildford as the Guildford Junction Railway on 5 May 1845; the line was extended to Godalming on 15 October 1849. The line was taken over by the L&SWR who opened its "Portsmouth direct" line on 28 December 1858, with leasehold of the station at Portsmouth. In order to reach it, however, trains had to use London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) metals from a junction at Havant, and the latter objected the L&SWR trains using the line. Fighting often took place, and passengers were forced to use a horse bus to complete their journey, but after a legal resolution trains ran freely from 24 January 1859. Guildford railway station is a railway station in the town of Guildford in Surrey in England. ... The LB&SCRs coat of arms, displayed above the entrance to Gipsy Hill railway station. ...

The route was electrified by the Southern Railway on 4 July 1937. The Southern Railway in the United Kingdom was the smallest of the four railway systems created in the Grouping ordered by the Railways Act 1921. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The route

Before electrification the route was a difficult one, since there are two summits on its seventy-mile (112km) run. After using the River Wey valley through Guildford, the line climbs from Godalming for eight miles (13km) at 1:80/1:82 to a summit near Haslemere; the second climb is three miles (5km) near Buriton Tunnel south of Petersfield. This article is about the river in Surrey, for the river in Dorset see River Wey, Dorset. ... Petersfield railway station is a railway station serving the market town of Petersfield, Hampshire, England. ...

Most of the stations are of similar design, possibly that of Sir William Tite the L&SWR architect William Tite (1798-1873) was a British architect. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect/Building designer is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction, whose role is to guide decisions affecting those building aspects that are of aesthetic, cultural or social concern. ...

Trivia

The line between London and Guildford is notable for the fact that almost half the stations begin with the letter 'W': Waterloo, Wimbledon, Walton-on-Thames, Weybridge, West Byfleet, Woking and Worplesdon.

See also

The London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1840 to 1923. ...

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The route

Trivia

See also

History