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Kingsley Halt railway station

Coordinates: 51°08′43″N 0°52′30″W / 51.1454°N 0.8749°W / 51.1454; -0.8749
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Kingsley Halt
General information
LocationEast Hampshire, Hampshire
Owned bySouthern Railway
Southern Region of British Railways
Managed byLondon and South Western Railway
Platforms1
Key dates
7 March 1906Opened
16 September 1957Closed to passenger traffic
4 April 1966Line closed entirely

Kingsley Halt was a railway station on the Bordon Light Railway which served the village of Kingsley. The station had been constructed by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) in the hope that the area would attract residential development, but in the event this never materialised. The LSWR had purchased an area of land far larger than that which was actually used, as they hoped to construct a large station and goods yard. A primitive halt with a single platform opened some months after the line's opening, consisting merely of a nameboard, noticeboard, lamp and seat.[1]

Declining passenger traffic and reduced military activities at Bordon after the Second World War saw the line's closure to regular services in 1957. Kingsley Halt was demolished soon after closure and nothing now remains except the shape of the trackbed which is now used as a farm track.[1]


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Bentley   British Rail
Southern Region

Bordon Light Railway
  Bordon

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Harding, Peter A. (1987). The Bordon Light Railway. Woking, Surrey: Peter A. Harding. ISBN 0-9509414-3-3. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

51°08′43″N 0°52′30″W / 51.1454°N 0.8749°W / 51.1454; -0.8749