Butts Junction

Basingstoke &
Alton Light Railway
Legend
South West Main Line
to Waterloo
 Basingstoke
South West Main Line
to Weymouth
Thornycroft sidings
Viables level crossing
 Cliddesden
Bushywarren Lane crossing
Bagmore Lane crossing
 Herriard
Salter Hatch crossing (Spain Lane)
 Bentworth and Lasham
level crossing
 Treloar's Hospital Platform (private)
Treloar's Hospital siding
Alton line
to Brookwood
 Alton
Butts Junction
Watercress Line
to Alresford
Watercress Line
Meon Valley Railway
to Fareham

Butts Junction was a railway junction located in Alton in Hampshire, England. The junction was the location at which the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway[1] and the Meon Valley Railway[2] diverged from the Mid-Hants Railway which runs from Alton to Winchester. The junction became operational in 1901.[3]

All of the Junction's railway lines had closed by 1973, with the Mid-Hants Railway subsequently reopening as a heritage railway known as the Watercress Line in 1977.[4] The location of Butts Junction can still be seen from trains on the Watercress Line, with an embankment tailing off in a different direction.

  1. ^ Dean, Martin; Robertson, Kevin; Simmonds, Roger (2003). The Basingstoke & Alton Light Railway. Southampton: Barton. pp. 9 & 10. ISBN 0-9545617-0-8. OCLC 53030800.
  2. ^ Patmore, John (1982). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Southern England.
  3. ^ Course, Edwin (1976). The Railways of Southern England. Batsford. ISBN 0713431962.
  4. ^ Butcher, Alan (1996). Mid-Hants Railway in colour. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-2465-0.