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Description: | The station opened about 1865 and the railway was run by the South Western Railway Company, a junction was made at Botley to give access to the Bishopstoke (later Eastleigh) and Gosport lines.
It helped in the development of Bishop's Waltham Clay Works, having a siding specifically connected to the Works which produced bricks, tiles, statues and ornamental pots that were transported all over the world via the railway. By the 1880's the Clay Works became the most important brickworks in Hampshire and its bricks were used in the building of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh as well as buildings in America and Poland.
The railway closed in 1962, although passenger services stopped in 1933. It was demolished in 1965 and a roundabout now stands on the site.
Copy photograph.
Reference:
Biddell, B. (2002) Bishop's Waltham: a history. p.116-120 | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | Bishops Waltham clay railway station uniform train costume Clay Works | Temporal: | start=1900-01-01; end=1930-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Library; 1970s-1980s | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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