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  2. London and South Western Railway - Wikipedia

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    Although the LSWR's area of influence was not the home of large-scale heavy industry, the transport of goods and mineral traffic was a major activity, and the company built a large marshalling yard at Feltham. Freight, docks and shipping business provided almost 40 per cent of turnover by 1908.

  3. Windsor lines of the London and South Western Railway

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    The LSWR had managed to get a requirement in the authorising Act to construct a connection from it into and through the LSWR Waterloo station, running into the Windsor Lines side. The South Eastern Railway was extremely hostile to the LSWR at this stage and declined to work trains over it, even though the connection was "open".

  4. LSWR suburban lines - Wikipedia

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    Map of LSWR electrified routes in 1922. The LSWR had been slower than competing lines to plan electrification, [note 13] and it was the LB&SCR among the railways south of London that electrified some of its suburban lines, with the first opening on 1 December 1909. Street tramways and competing, electric railways, coupled with demographic ...

  5. Southern Railway routes west of Salisbury - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Southern Railway routes in the West of England. The London and South Western Railway (LSWR) was formed from the London and Southampton Railway, one of the earliest long-distance lines, which opened from 1838. The first line was successful, and the company then extended its network, at first by building branch lines from the original ...

  6. West of England line - Wikipedia

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    The West of England line (also known as the West of England Main Line) is a British railway line from Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Exeter St Davids in Devon, England.. Passenger services run between London Waterloo station and Exeter; the line intersects with the Wessex Main Line at

  7. Waterloo & City line - Wikipedia

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    The Waterloo & City line, colloquially known as The Drain, [4] is a shuttle line of the London Underground that runs between Waterloo and Bank with no intermediate stops. Its primary traffic consists of commuters from south-west London, Surrey and Hampshire arriving at Waterloo main line station and travelling forward to the City of London financial district.

  8. South West Main Line - Wikipedia

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    The South West Main Line [1] (SWML) is a 143-mile (230 km) major railway line between Waterloo station in central London and Weymouth on the south coast of England. A predominantly passenger line, it serves many commuter areas including south western suburbs of London and the conurbations based on Southampton and Bournemouth.

  9. London Waterloo station - Wikipedia

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    Waterloo station (/ ˌ w ɔː t ər ˈ l uː /), [5] [6] also known as London Waterloo, is a major London terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth. It is connected to a London Underground station of the same name and is adjacent to Waterloo East station on the South ...