Oakhanger Halt railway station

Served Bordon Camp in Hampshire, England, between 1932 and 1969

51°07′08″N 0°52′30″W / 51.1188°N 0.8749°W / 51.1188; -0.8749Platforms1Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyLongmoor Military RailwayKey datesby 1914station opened31 October 1969closed

Longmoor Military Railway

Legend

Bordon Light Railway

to Bentley

White Hill Road LC

Bordon

Oakhanger Halt

Whitehill Junction

Two Range Halt

Hopkins Bridge

Woolmer

Hollywater

Longmoor Downs

Griggs Green

Weaversdown Halt

Liss Forest Road

Liss Junction

Liss

to Guildford

London to Portsmouth line
to Havant

Oakhanger Halt is a former railway station, on the Longmoor Military Railway which served Bordon Camp, the station was closer to the camp than Bordon on the Bordon Light Railway. The station is likely to have opened with the line in 1905 but the first documented evidence showing it open is on 14 August 1914 when it was used the Officer Commanding Railway Troops to say goodbye to the first mobilised Railway Company departing for France.^[1]

The station was situated immediately to the north of the ungated level crossing over Oakenhanger Road. The line through the halt was built as a single track, was doubled during WWII and singled after the war as doubled ungated level crossings were then no longer permitted.^[2]^[3] The station had one platform, with no facilities, to the west of the running lines. There was a block post, the Army's name for a signal box, between the road and the start of the platform.^[4]^[5]

At the opposite end of the platform there was a junction with lines going Louisburg Barracks and a set of sidings.^[6]

The station was closed along with the rest of the line on 31 October 1969.^[7]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Bordon		Longmoor Military Railway		Whitehill Junction

References

Citations

^ Ronald & Carter 1974, p. 50.
^ Ronald & Carter 1974, p. 150.
^ Mitchell & Smith 1987, photo 16.
^ "SU73NE - A (includes: Binsted; Kingsley; Selborne; Whitehill; Worldham)". National Library of Scotland. 1962. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
^ Mitchell & Smith 1987, photos 13—17.
^ Ronald & Carter 1974, p. 60.
^ Quick 2022, p. 565.

Bibliography

Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1987). Branch Lines to Longmoor. Middleton Press. ISBN 978-0-906520-41-3.
Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
Ronald, D.W.; Carter, R.J. (1974). The Longmoor Military Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0 7153 6357 3.