Hilsea railway station

Hilsea
Location
Place	Hilsea
Local authority	Portsmouth
Grid reference	SU663035
Operations
Station code	HLS
Managed by	South West Trains
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.223 million
2005/06	0.241 million
2006/07	0.228 million
2007/08	0.236 million
2008/09	0.281 million
2009/10	0.265 million
2010/11	0.284 million
2011/12	0.283 million
2012/13	0.288 million
2013/14	0.310 million
2014/15	0.325 million
History
Key dates	Opened October 1937
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hilsea from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Hilsea railway station is a railway station in Portsmouth, England serving the northern end of Portsea Island, including a large industrial estate nearby.

It is located on the Portsmouth Direct Line which runs between London (London Waterloo) and Portsmouth (Portsmouth Harbour). There were extensive sidings at Hilsea during the second world war.

This railway station is mainly used by commuters who work in nearby Anchorage Park industrial estate. Only stopping trains stop here. This station is rarely manned, only in its peaked hours between 6 and 7am.

Historically, during the Battle of Havant, Hilsea was the terminus of an omnibus link from Denvilles Halt, just east of Havant. When the Portsmouth Direct Line had been constructed by the LSWR, at the request of the residents of Portsmouth, it was necessary that trains run from the Portcreek Junction railway triangle, to Havant Junction, along track owned by the rival LBSCR. The latter firm refused to allow that and engaged in militant obstruction of the track to prevent the running of a through train service for several months.

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  A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Hilsea railway station

External links

• Train times and station information for Hilsea railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 50°49′41″N 1°03′32″W / 50.828174°N 1.058818°W