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Mid Hants Railway - Watercress line
The railway runs
10 miles from Alresford to Alton, visiting along the way, Ropley and Medstead
& Four Marks. The Alton, Alresford and Winchester Railway
Company, which later became the original Mid-Hants Railway, opened the line in
1865. There were three intermediary stations, at Ropley, Alresford and Itchen
Abbas. The fourth station, Medstead and Four Marks, was constructed later date.
Services were operated by the LSWR, who ultimately absorbed the line in 1884. In
1923 it became part of the Southern Railway, which then in turn became the
Southern Region of British Railways after nationalisation, in 1948.
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