Jessie Road Halt

Infobox UK disused station
name = Jessie Road Halt


caption = Site of the former halt.
gridref = SZ656996
manager = Southsea Railway (1885to 1914)
L&SWR/LB&SCR [Very unusually, the two companies ran the line in alternate years "Portsmouth in the past"Gates,W:Portsmouth, S.P, 1925 rpr1972 ISBN 0854097449]
owner = "Closed"
locale = Fratton
borough = Portsmouth City Council
platforms = 1
years = 1 July 1904
events = Opened
years1 = 8 August 1914
events1 = Closed

Jessie Road Halt was an intermediate station situated on the Southsea Railway ”Woking to Portsmouth” Mitchell,V/Smith,K: Midhurst, Middleton Press,1984 ISBN 1873793381] between Fratton"Hampshire railways remembered" Oppitz,L Newbury, Countryside 1988 ISBN 1853060208] and Albert Road (sometimes called Highland Road"The Southsea Railway" Robertson,K: Southampton, Kingfisher, 1985 ISBN 094618416X] ). Opened in 1904 and closed a decade later it was part of a concerted effort to boost revenue and thus see off competition from the burgeoning tramway network ”Portsmouth’s tramways” Petch,M: Midhurst, Middleton Press,1996 ISBN 1873793723] . The final nail in the line's coffin was a government directive issued shortly after the declaration of war [Robertson (Ibid)] that railways unable to support themselves would cease operations at the earliest opportunity; and, as the line clearly fell into this category, the last train ran early in August 1914 [Oppitz (Ibid)] .

References

See also

*List of closed railway stations in Britain

External links

* [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mickssrsource/srmiddgazet/lbscr.html Intermediate halts listed]
* [http://www.hackwriters.com/Firetrap.htm Halt mentioned in short story]