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Jessie Road Bridge Halt
General information
LocationPortsmouth City Council
Line(s)Southsea Railway (1885 to 1914)
Platforms1
History
Pre-groupingL&SWR/LB&SCR[1]
Key dates
1 October 1904Opened
8 August 1914Closed
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[8] 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[9].


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 0854097449
  2. ^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 129.
  3. ^ ”Woking to Portsmouth” Mitchell,V/Smith,K: Midhurst, Middleton Press,1984 ISBN 1873793381
  4. ^ "Hampshire railways remembered" Oppitz,L Newbury, Countryside 1988 ISBN 1853060208
  5. ^ "The Southsea Railway" Robertson,K: Southampton, Kingfisher, 1985 ISBN 094618416X
  6. ^ ”Portsmouth’s tramways” Petch,M: Midhurst, Middleton Press,1996 ISBN 1873793723
  7. ^ Kidner, R. W. (1985). Southern Railway Halts. Survey and Gazetteer. Headington, Oxford: The Oakwood Press. p. 39. ISBN 085361 321 4. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |coauthors= and |month= (help)
  8. ^ Robertson (Ibid)
  9. ^ Oppitz (Ibid)

50°47′34″N 1°04′07″W / 50.792697°N 1.068521°W / 50.792697; -1.068521

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