Woolmer railway station

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Woolmer
LocationEast Hampshire
England
Coordinates51°05′06″N 0°52′44″W / 51.085°N 0.879°W / 51.085; -0.879Coordinates: 51°05′06″N 0°52′44″W / 51.085°N 0.879°W / 51.085; -0.879
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyLongmoor Military Railway
Key dates
by 1933station opened
31 October 1969closed

Woolmer railway station is a former railway station, on the Longmoor Military Railway which served the hamlet of Woolmer. The station was probably situated opposite the end of what is now Blackmoor Road, the station is shown as existing on a 1933 map but its precise location is not shown.[1]

In 1948 the station had two low-level platforms with no facilities,[a] it was the station for the marshalling yard which varied in size over the years, peaking at around forty sidings.[3] There was a block post, the Army's name for a signal box, controlling access to the yard from the double track which was usually worked as a single track using the up line.[4]

The station was closed along with the rest of the line on 31 October 1969.[5]


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Two Range Halt   Longmoor Military Railway   Longmoor Downs

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Notes[]

  1. ^ The photo in Mitchell & Smith (1987) shows platforms opposite each other, but Farmer (1966) states they were staggered.[2]

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Bibliography[]

  • Farmer, Keith (March 1966). "Longmoor Military Railway". Industrial Railway Record: 199–205.
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1987). Branch Lines to Longmoor. Middleton Press. ISBN 978-0-906520-41-3.
  • Quick, Michael (2019) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF) (5th ed.). Railway & Canal Historical Society.
  • Ronald, D.W.; Carter, R.J. (1974). The Longmoor Military Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0 7153 6357 3.
  • "A Railway which gives Free Travel: The Woolmer Instructional Military Railway". The Railway Magazine (434). August 1933.


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