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Undaunted by the poor response to calls on shares, [note 2] the company took powers by the Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. cxxxiv) of 13 July 1863 to raise an additional £30,000 and extend the line 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile (5.6 km) to the east side of Holdenhurst Road in Bournemouth; the present-day ...
Christchurch railway station serves the town of Christchurch in Dorset, England. The station is a stop on the South West Main Line between London Waterloo and Weymouth . It is located 104 miles 28 chains (167.9 km) down the line from Waterloo, with services currently operated by South Western Railway
In 1859 the Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway was authorised; it was opened in 1862; by this time it was plain that Bournemouth was a rising commercial and leisure centre. That line's junction with the former Southampton and Dorchester Railway route faced away from West Moors, so that both junctions were aligned in a way that was ...
[57] [58] The works included a new Christchurch station and the doubling of the single line between Christchurch and Bournemouth East, both completed on 30 May 1886. [57] Progress on the 10 mi 38 ch (16.9 km) cut-off line was hindered by poor weather in spring 1887, which flooded cuttings and damaged embankments.
The later development of Bournemouth as a major town led to the building of a branch from Ringwood through to Christchurch, later extended to Bournemouth. This was the Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway. In 1885, the present main line from Brockenhurst to Christchurch and on to Poole, via what is now Bournemouth station, was opened ...
The station is on the stretch of line opened in 1888 between Brockenhurst and Christchurch to provide a direct line from London to Bournemouth, bypassing the original "Castleman's Corkscrew" line via Ringwood and reducing that line to a backwater. There is no village as such named Hinton Admiral.
Pokesdown railway station serves the Pokesdown, Boscombe and Southbourne areas of the town of Bournemouth in Dorset, England.It is on the South West Main Line, 106 miles 24 chains (171.1 km) down the line from London Waterloo.
Bournemouth: Glo Smartcard: Yellow Buses: Rolled out in 2010, Replaced by Yellow Buses "smartcard" July 2018. [73] The Key: More Bus: 2010 The Key UNIBUS: Bournemouth University: 2012 Getting About: Bournemouth Borough Council: 2018 Bracknell Maidenhead Windsor: Smartcard: Courtney Connect: in use in 2018. Bradford: FirstCard: First West Yorkshire