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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
The company had opened the first part of its line, between Ringwood and Christchurch, on 13 November 1862, but passenger numbers were low. [48] [49] The proposal to continue the line to the growing seaside resort of Bournemouth was authorised by the Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway Act 1863. Work on the 3 mi 52 ch (5.9 km ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Bournemouth railway station serves the seaside town of Bournemouth, in Dorset, England. It was known previously as Bournemouth East (1885 to 1899) and then Bournemouth Central (1899 to 1967). It has long been treated as an obligatory principal stop on the South West Main Line between London Waterloo and Weymouth .
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.