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The Hayling Island Branch was a railway in Hampshire, England, that connected Havant with Hayling Island. It was sometimes known as the Hayling Billy, a name now given to the footpath along the old track.〔"The Hayling Billy Leisure Trail" Marshall,B Havant, Bosmere Hundred Society, 1992〕 == History == The line was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR) for goods on 19 January 1865, and for passengers on 16 July 1867.〔"Catching the train to Hayling Island: a history" Newell, L: Havant, Havant Borough Council, 2005 (2003) (2000)〕 It ran from Havant to Hayling Island station. There were two intermediate stations at Langston (sic)〔Truncated by the Railway Timetablers, a common practice with place names ending with e〕 and North Hayling. Neither were ever "halts", in spite of their small size.〔Hampshire railways remembered Oppitz,L Newbury, Countryside 1988 ISBN 1-85306-020-8〕 The line itself was mainly used during the summer months as people from the South Coast would travel down to the beach on Hayling Island. The coaches would often be overflowing during these months, however would be virtually empty during the winter,〔"Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight" Bennett,A Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN 1-870754-31-X〕 which would become a problem. The LBSCR quickly ran into difficulty during the construction of the railway, as they had attempted to save on the cost of buying land on Hayling Island for the line by constructing an embankment on the mud flats in the sheltered waters of Langstone Harbour—This was an ambitious plan, which also involved the construction of wet and dry docks at Sinah Lake. Though they were given a grant to the mudlands by William Padwick, who was himself behind the plan, and the promoters offered to build the embankment and Railway at a cost of £80,000,〔called South Hayling until 1892 "Branch Line to Hayling" Mitchell,V./Smith,K (In association with Bell,A): Midhurst, Middleton Press, 1984 ISBN 0-906520-12-6〕 the area was not sheltered as had been hoped: the bank was severely eroded before the railway could be completed. The board of trade inspector was invited to certify the line as being fit for passenger traffic, but he initially refused to do so as he found that many of the sleepers had begun to rot in the original section of the railway, and there was also an unauthorised level crossing at Langstone. The former problem was quickly fixed but the level crossing remained until the closure of the line. The line was taken over by the Southern Railway in 1923 and by British Railways in 1948. Because of the weight restriction on the bridge〔"The Book of Hayling Island-more than a millennium"Rogers,P: Tiverton, Halsgrove, 2000 ISBN 1-84114-078-3〕 it was worked, from late Victorian times to closure in 1963 by small LB&SCR A1/A1X Class locomotives.〔''Memories of the Hayling Island Branch'':Produced by Ian Heys for "Branch Line Videos", Catalogue Number 418-514424〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hayling Island Branch Line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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