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The London and Southampton Railway had opened its line in 1840 [1] and then in 1841 gave Portsmouth a half-hearted railway connection at Gosport, requiring a ferry crossing and a roundabout route to get to London. Changing the company name to London and South Western Railway (LSWR) did not completely erase the tension between the citizens of ...
The line from London to the Channel Tunnel is the only line designated 'high speed', although the other main routes also operate limited-stop express services. The bulk of the secondary network is concentrated in London and the surrounding East and South East regions; an area marketed by National Rail as London and the South East .
The Portsmouth Railway got its authorising act, the Portsmouth Railway Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. xcix) on 8 July 1853, for a 32 + 1 ⁄ 4 mile route from Godalming (LSWR, at a junction just north of the original terminus) to Havant (LBSCR, on the line from Chichester to Portsmouth). The LSWR and the LBSCR both opposed the scheme in Parliament.
The West Coastway line runs almost alongside or within a few miles of the south coast of Sussex and Hampshire, between Brighton and Southampton. [1] [2] [3]East of Portsmouth the line was electrified (using 750 V DC third rail) by the Southern Railway before the Second World War in two stages:
This is a route-map template for the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, a UK railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The Portsmouth line refers to the preferred route from London to Portsmouth on the former LB&SCR system, and particularly the cutoff from Peckham Rye to Horsham. It is not generally applied north of Peckham Rye or south of Horsham because those lines have well-known identities established before the Portsmouth connection was completed: the South London Line, the Mid-Sussex Line and the West ...
This is a route-map template for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a UK railway. Adding an optinal second parameter will change the displayed text of the link, making it a piped link , for example,
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 ...