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{{Short description|Railway junction in Hampshire, England}}
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{{Infobox rail line
| name          = Worting Junction
| image         = Worting-Junction-by-Rik-Johnson.jpg
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| caption       = Worting Junction from the east
| type          = [[Heavy rail]]
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| locale        = [[Oakley, Hampshire|Oakley]], [[Hampshire]], [[England]]<br />{{coord|51.25246|N|1.15786|W |format=dms |type:landmark_region:GB |display=inline,title}}
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| routes        = {{plainlist|
* [[South West Main Line|London to Weymouth]] (between {{stnlnk|Basingstoke}} and {{stnlnk|Micheldever}})
* [[West of England Main Line|London to Exeter]] (between {{stnlnk|Basingstoke}} and {{stnlnk|Overton}})
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| open          = {{Start date|1854|df=y}}
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\STR!~MFADEg\STR!~MFADEg\STR!~MFADEg\STR!~MFADEg~~ ~~ ~~{{BSsplit|[[South West Main Line|SWML]]|to [[Basingstoke railway station|Basingstoke]]|it=all}}
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STRc2!~MFADEgq\STRc2!~STR3+1!~MSTR2!~hSTR2\STRc4!~STR3+1!~hSTRc3\STRc24\STR3~~ ~~ ~~Battledown Flyover
STR3+1!~MFADEf!~STRc2!~MFADEgq\STRc4!~STR3+1!~hSTRc1\hSTR+4\STR+1\STRc4
STR3+1!~MFADEf!~MFADEgq\STRc4\hSTRe\STR\~~ ~~ ~~{{BSsplit|[[West of England Main Line|WoEML]]|to [[Salisbury railway station|Salisbury]]|it=all}}
\STRg\STRf
\STR!~MFADEf\STR!~MFADEf~~ ~~ ~~{{BSsplit|[[South West Main Line|SWML]]|to [[Winchester railway station|Winchester]]|it=all}}
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'''Worting Junction''' is a railway junction on the former [[London & South Western Railway]] route south of [[Basingstoke railway station|Basingstoke]] where the line divides to go towards [[Salisbury railway station|Salisbury]] or [[Southampton Central railway station|Southampton]].

== History ==
[[File:Aldershot, Ash, Shalford, Basingstoke, Guildford & Peasmarsh , Wimbledon RJD 4.jpg|thumb|left|A 1912 [[Railway Clearing House]] Junction Diagram, on which Worting Junction is shown as Battledown Junction]]
When the line was first opened in 1854, Worting Junction was constructed as a flat junction.{{r|"DjGmH"}} 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, {{frac|3|1|4}} miles west of Basingstoke.

== Description ==
[[File:Battledown-Flyover-by-Jon-Bryant.jpg|thumb|left|Battledown Flyover, part of Worting Junction]]
North of Worting Junction, stopping services to/from [[London Waterloo railway station|London Waterloo]] and [[CrossCountry]] services to/from the North of England via [[Reading railway station|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 ==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="DjGmH">{{cite book|title=The Railway Handbook ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iTI7AAAAIAAJ|year=1945|publisher=Railway Publishing Company Limited|page=16|quote=... the railway to Southampton at Worting Junction, near Basingstoke, and was opened to Andover in 1854, to Salisbury in ...}}</ref>
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[[Category:Rail junctions in England]]
[[Category:Rail transport in Hampshire]]
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