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Jessie Road Bridge Halt
General information
LocationCity of Portsmouth
Line(s)Southsea Railway (1885 to 1914)
Platforms1
History
Pre-groupingL&SWR/LB&SCR[1]
Key dates
1 October 1904Opened
8 August 1914Closed
A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Portsmouth, showing the Southsea Railway

Jessie Road Bridge Halt[2] was an intermediate station situated on the Southsea Railway[3] between Fratton[4] and Albert Road Bridge Halt (sometimes called Highland Road[5]).

Opened in 1904 and closed a decade later it was part of a concerted effort to boost revenue and thus see off competition from the burgeoning tramway network.[6] The station's only platform was on the down line, the up line being out of use.[7] The final nail in the line's coffin was a government directive issued shortly after the declaration of war[5] 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.[4]


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Fratton   Southsea Railway   Albert Road
Bridge Halt

See also

References

  1. ^ Very unusually, the two companies ran the line in alternate years "Portsmouth in the past"Gates,W:Portsmouth, S.P, 1925 rpr1972 ISBN 0-85409-744-9
  2. ^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 129.
  3. ^ Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (December 1985). Southern Main Lines: Woking to Portsmouth. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 0-906520-25-8. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  4. ^ a b "Hampshire railways remembered" Oppitz,L Newbury, Countryside 1988 ISBN 1-85306-020-8
  5. ^ a b "The Southsea Railway" Robertson,K: Southampton, Kingfisher, 1985 ISBN 0-946184-16-X
  6. ^ "Portsmouth’s tramways" Petch,M: Midhurst, Middleton Press,1996 ISBN 1-873793-72-3
  7. ^ Kidner, R. W. (1985). Southern Railway Halts. Survey and Gazetteer. Headington, Oxford: The Oakwood Press. p. 39. ISBN 0-85361-321-4.

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