Lee-on-Solent Line

The Lee-on-Solent Line was a three mile long Lee-on-the-Solent Railway Company built branch railway line that ran between a junction on the Fareham to Gosport Line at Fort Brockhurst to Lee-on-the-Solent via three intermediate halts, Fort Gomer Halt, Browndown Halt and Elmore Halt.[1]

History

Authorised on 14 April 1890, the line opened on 12 May 1894 after a number of construction difficulties and failing safety inspections.[1] The line remained independent, due to the poor performance of the line, until it was taken over by the Southern Railway well after consolidation in 1923.

A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Gosport

The passenger service was withdrawn from the intermediate halts on 1 May 1930 before the service to the terminus was removed on 1 January 1931 and goods on 30 September 1935.

The line today

The station building at Lee-on-Solent has been converted into an amusement arcade showing no visible remnants as a railway station. The site of the platform is now a car park. There are no traces of the other three halts and virtually all trace of the railway route has been erased with modern development.

References
  1. http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/l/lee_on_the_solent/index.shtml
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