Kingsley Halt railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Kingsley Halt
gridref = SU788391


caption =
manager = London and South Western Railway
owner = Southern Railway
Southern Region of British Railways
locale = Kingsley
borough = East Hampshire, Hampshire
platforms = 1
years = 7 March 1906
events = Opened
years2 = 16 September 1957
events2 = Closed to passenger traffic
years3 = 4 April 1966
events3 = Closed to freight traffic

Kingsley Halt was a railway station on the Bordon Light Railway which served the village of Kingsley. The station had been constructed by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) in the hope that the area would attract residential development, but in the event this never materialised. The LSWR had purchased an area of land far larger than that which was actually used, as they hoped to construct a large station and goods yard. A primitive halt with a single platform opened some months after the line's opening, consisting merely of a nameboard, noticeboard, lamp and seat.cite book | last = Harding | first = Peter A. | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Bordon Light Railway | publisher = Peter A. Harding | date = 1987 | location = Woking, Surrey | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0950941433 ]

Declining passenger traffic and reduced military activities at Bordon after the Second World War saw the line's closure to regular services in 1957. Kingsley Halt was demolished soon after closure and nothing now remains except the shape of the trackbed which is now used as a farm track.

See also

* List of closed railway stations in Britain

References

External links

* [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/k/kingsley_halt/index.shtml Kingsley Halt on Subterranea Britannica]