Worting Junction
| Worting Junction | |
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 Worting Junction from the east | |
| Overview | |
| Type | Heavy rail |
| Locale | Oakley, Hampshire, England 51°15′09″N 1°09′28″W / 51.25246°N 1.15786°WCoordinates: 51°15′09″N 1°09′28″W / 51.25246°N 1.15786°W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
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| Operation | |
| Opened | 1854 |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge |
Worting Junction is a railway junction on the former London & South Western Railway route south of Basingstoke where the line divides to go towards Salisbury or Southampton.
History
When the line was first opened in 1854, Worting Junction was constructed as a flat junction.[1] This required that down trains heading west and up trains from Southampton cross each other's paths. Initially this was not a great problem, however as traffic and speeds increased the junction became a bottleneck. To relieve this, a flying junction was provided to the south, opening on 30 May 1897. This changed the arrangement so that up trains from Southampton now cross over the up and down Salisbury lines on Battledown Flyover, 3 1⁄4 miles west of Basingstoke.
Description
North of Worting Junction, stopping services to/from London Waterloo and CrossCountry services to/from the North of England via Reading use the outer pair of tracks, while express services to/from London Waterloo use the inner pair of tracks. The inner pair of tracks are unelectrified through the junction and continue towards the west to Salisbury and Exeter.
References
- ↑ The Railway Handbook ... Railway Publishing Company Limited. 1945. p. 16.
... the railway to Southampton at Worting Junction, near Basingstoke, and was opened to Andover in 1854, to Salisbury in ...
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