Jessie Road Bridge Halt railway station

Jessie Road Bridge Halt
Location
Place Fratton
Area City of Portsmouth
Grid reference SZ657996
Operations
Original company Southsea Railway (1885 to 1914)
Pre-grouping L&SWR/LB&SCR[1]
Platforms 1
History
1 October 1904 Opened
8 August 1914 Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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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]

Railways in the Portsmouth area

Legend
Portsmouth Direct Line
to London Waterloo via Guildford

West Coastway Line
to Southampton

West Coastway Line
to Brighton & London Victoria
Portchester
Havant
M27
Bedhampton
Cosham
A3(M)

A27
Portsbridge Creek
Hilsea
Southsea Railway 1885-1914
Fratton
Jessie Road Bridge Halt
Albert Road Bridge Halt
Portsmouth & Southsea

East Southsea
Admiralty Line
to HMNB Portsmouth

Portsmouth Harbour
FastCat
to Ryde Pier Head

Gosport Ferry
to Gosport

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.
  4. 1 2 "Hampshire railways remembered" Oppitz,L Newbury, Countryside 1988 ISBN 1-85306-020-8
  5. 1 2 "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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Coordinates: 50°47′34″N 1°04′07″W / 50.792697°N 1.068521°W / 50.792697; -1.068521

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