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This article is about the intermediate station on the Southsea Railway, not the similarly named halt in Plymouth[2]
Albert Road Halt (Sometimes called Highland Road),[3] was an intermediate station situated on the Southsea Railway[4] between Jessie Road[5] and East Southsea. 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.[6] The final nail in the line's coffin was a government directive issued shortly after the declaration of war[3] 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.[5]
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- ^ Very unusually, the two companies ran the line in alternate years "Portsmouth in the past"Gates,W:Portsmouth, S.P, 1925 rpr1972 ISBN 0854097449
- ^ Plymouthdata
- ^ a b "The Southsea Railway" Robertson,K: Southampton, Kingfisher, 1985 ISBN 094618416X
- ^ Mitchell, V, and Smith, K (1984). ”Woking to Portsmouth”. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1873793381.
- ^ a b Oppitz, Leslie (1988). "Hampshire railways remembered". Newbury: Countryside. ISBN 1853060208.
- ^ Petch, M (1996). ”Portsmouth’s tramways”. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1873793723.
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