Albert Road Bridge Halt railway station

Not to be confused with the similarly named halt in Plymouth.

Albert Road Bridge Halt
General information
LocationSouthsea, City of Portsmouth
England
Grid referenceSZ656990
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Opened1 July 1904; 120 years ago (1904-07-01)
Closed8 August 1914; 110 years ago (1914-08-08)
Original companySouthsea Railway
A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Portsmouth, showing the Southsea Railway

Albert Road Bridge Halt (sometimes called Highland Road)[1] was an intermediate station situated on the Southsea Railway,[2] between Jessie Road Bridge Halt[3] and East Southsea.

The Southsea Railway opened on 1 July 1885,[4] and on that line, Albert Road Bridge Halt was opened on 1 July 1904 and closed a decade later on 6 August 1914,[5] it was part of a concerted effort to boost revenue and thus see off competition from the burgeoning tramway network.[6] The Southsea Railway was jointly owned by the London and South Western Railway and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway,[7] and very unusually, the two companies ran the line in alternate years.[8] The final nail in the line's coffin was a government directive issued shortly after the declaration of war[1] 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.[3]


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Jessie Road
Bridge Halt 		  Southsea Railway   East Southsea
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  2. ^ Mitchell, V.; Smith, K. (December 1985). Woking to Portsmouth. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 0-906520-25-8.
  3. ^ a b Oppitz, Leslie (1988). Hampshire railways remembered. Newbury: Countryside. ISBN 1-85306-020-8.
  4. ^ White, H.P. (1992) [1961]. Thomas, David St John; Patmore, J. Allan (eds.). Volume 2: Southern England. A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain (5th ed.). Nairn: David St John Thomas. p. 126. ISBN 0-946537-77-1.
  5. ^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 14. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
  6. ^ Petch, M. (1996). Portsmouth's tramways. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-873793-72-3.
  7. ^ Faulkner, J.N.; Williams, R.A. (1988). The LSWR in the Twentieth Century. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 68. ISBN 0-7153-8927-0.
  8. ^ Gates, William George (1972) [1925]. Portsmouth in the past. S.R. Publishers. ISBN 0-85409-744-9.