Oakhanger Halt is a former railway station, on the Longmoor Military Railway which served Bordon Camp, the station was closer to the camp than Bordon on the Bordon Light Railway. The station is likely to have opened with the line in 1905 but the first documented evidence showing it open is on 14 August 1914 when it was used the Officer Commanding Railway Troops to say goodbye to the first mobilised Railway Company departing for France.[1]
Oakhanger Halt | |
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| General information | |
| Location | East Hampshire England |
| Coordinates | 51°07′08″N 0°52′30″W / 51.1188°N 0.8749°W |
| Platforms | 1 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | Longmoor Military Railway |
| Key dates | |
| by 1914 | station opened |
| 31 October 1969 | closed |
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The station was situated immediately to the north of the ungated level crossing over Oakenhanger Road. The line through the halt was built as a single track, was doubled during WWII and singled after the war as doubled ungated level crossings were then no longer permitted.[2][3] The station had one platform, with no facilities, to the west of the running lines. There was a block post, the Army's name for a signal box, between the road and the start of the platform.[4][5]
At the opposite end of the platform there was a junction with lines going Louisburg Barracks and a set of sidings.[6]
The station was closed along with the rest of the line on 31 October 1969.[7]
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Bordon | Longmoor Military Railway | Whitehill Junction |
References
editCitations
edit- ^ Ronald & Carter 1974, p. 50.
- ^ Ronald & Carter 1974, p. 150.
- ^ Mitchell & Smith 1987, photo 16.
- ^ "SU73NE - A (includes: Binsted; Kingsley; Selborne; Whitehill; Worldham)". National Library of Scotland. 1962. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ Mitchell & Smith 1987, photos 13—17.
- ^ Ronald & Carter 1974, p. 60.
- ^ Quick 2022, p. 565.
Bibliography
edit- Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1987). Branch Lines to Longmoor. Middleton Press. ISBN 978-0-906520-41-3.
- Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
- Ronald, D.W.; Carter, R.J. (1974). The Longmoor Military Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-6357-3.
Further reading
edit- Farmer, Keith (March 1966). "Longmoor Military Railway". Industrial Railway Record: 199–205.
- "A Railway which gives Free Travel: The Woolmer Instructional Military Railway". The Railway Magazine (434). August 1933.
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