Herriard railway station

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Herriard
Location
Location	Herriard
Area	Hampshire
Coordinates	51°12′16″N 1°02′53″W / 51.204318, -1.048009Coordinates: 51°12′16″N 1°02′53″W / 51.204318, -1.048009
Grid reference	SU667452
Operations
Original company	Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Platforms	2
History
1 June 1901	Opened
30 December 1916	Closed
18 August 1924	Reopened
12 September 1932	Closed to passenger traffic
1 June 1936	Closed to freight traffic
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D-F G H-J K-L M-O P-R S T-Z
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Herriard railway station was a railway station in the village of Herriard, Hampshire, UK. The station was a stop on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway until its closure in 1932. On Sunday 19 August 1928 a crash scene from the film The Wrecker was filmed at Herriard. A set of SECR coaches and a Class F1 locomotive no. A148 were released on an incline to collide into a Foden steam lorry.^[1]

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• Basingstoke's railway history

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Cliddesden		Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway		Bentworth and Lasham