Andover Town railway station

Coordinates: 51°12′18″N 1°28′57″W / 51.20494°N 1.48253°W

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Andover Town

General information
Location	Andover, Test Valley England
Grid reference	SU362452
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Andover and Redbridge Railway
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
6 March 1865	Station opens
7 September 1964	Station closed for passengers
18 September 1967	Station closed for freight

Andover Town railway station was a former railway station that served the town of Andover in the English county of Hampshire. Located on the Andover to Redbridge Line over which the Midland and South Western Junction Railway had running powers, its closure left services to the town to the Andover station, which was formerly known as Andover Junction station.

History

Originally built by the Andover and Redbridge Railway, the station joined the London and South Western Railway and so was absorbed by the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923, although The M&SWJR was allocated to the Great Western Railway. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

This route fell victim to the Beeching Axe in September 1964, three years after passenger trains had been withdrawn from the M&SWJR line.^[1]

The site today

The former site is now occupied by the A3057 dual carriageway.

References

^ Body, p.54

Oppitz, Leslie (2001). Lost Railways of Hampshire. Countryside Books. ISBN 1-85306-689-3.
Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
Site and picture [1]
Station on navigable O.S. map.
*Body, G. (1984), PSL Field Guides – Railways of the Southern Region, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Cambridge, ISBN 0-85059-664-5

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Andover Junction Line closed, station open		Southern Railway Sprat and Winkle Line		Clatford Line and station closed

51°12′18″N 1°28′57″W / 51.20494°N 1.48253°W / 51.20494; -1.48253

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