Andover Town railway station

Andover Town

Location
Place	Andover
Area	Test Valley
Operations
Original company	Andover and Redbridge Railway
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Platforms	2
History
6 March 1865	Station opens
7 September 1964	Station closed for passengers
18 September 1967	Station closed for freight
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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Andover Town railway station served the town of Andover in the English county of Hampshire. Located on the Andover to Redbridge Line over which the Midland and South Western Junction Railway had running powers, its closure left services to the town to the former Andover Junction station.

History

Originally built by the Andover and Redbridge Railway, the station joined the London and South Western Railway and so was absorbed by the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923, although The M&SWJR was allocated to the Great Western Railway. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The station was subsequently closed by the British Railways Board.

The site today

The former site is now occupied by the A3057 dual carriageway.

References

Leslie Oppitz , (2001). Lost Railways of Hampshire. Countryside Books. ISBN 1-85306-689-3
Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
Site and picture
Station on navigable O.S. map.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Andover Junction Line closed, station open		Southern Railway Sprat and Winkle Line		Clatford Line and station closed

Coordinates: 51°12′18″N 1°28′57″W / 51.20494°N 1.48253°W / 51.20494; -1.48253

Closed railway stations in Hampshire

Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway	Woodhay Highclere Burghclere Litchfield Whitchurch Town Barton Stacey Sutton Scotney Worthy Down Halt King's Worthy Winchester (Chesil)

Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway	Cliddesden Herriard Bentworth and Lasham

Meon Valley Railway	Farringdon Halt Tisted Privett West Meon Droxford Wickham

Sprat and Winkle Line Fullerton to Hurstbourne Line	Andover Town Clatford Fullerton Junction Stockbridge Horsebridge Mottisfont Longparish Wherwell

Fawley Branch Line	Marchwood Hythe Hardley Halt Fawley

Lymington Branch Line	Shirley Holms Halt Ampress Works Halt

Southampton and Dorchester Railway	Ringwood Holmsley

Hayling Island Branch Line	Langston North Hayling Hayling Island

Fareham to Gosport Line	Fort Brockhurst Gosport

Lee-on-the-Solent Branch Line	Fort Gomer Halt Browndown Halt Elmore Halt Lee-on-the-Solent

Stokes Bay Line	Gosport Road and Alverstone Stokes Bay

Southsea Railway	Jessie Road Bridge Halt Albert Road Bridge Halt East Southsea

Bordon Light Railway	Kingsley Halt Bordon

West of England Main Line	Hurstbourne Oakley

Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway	Breamore Fordingbridge

Other stations	Basingstoke Bishops Waltham Havant New Durley Halt Farlington Halt Itchen Abbas Knowle Halt Northam Nursling Paulsgrove Halt Southampton Terminus Weyhill Woodcroft Halt

Stations in Dorset since 1974

Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway	Bournemouth East Boscombe Christchurch Hurn Avon Lodge

Southampton and Dorchester Railway	Bournemouth West Meyrick Park Halt

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