Many of you will have seen the railway lines that skirt through Hamble, but will have never seen a locomotive engine actually crossing Hamble Lane. This is a picture sent to me recently of a Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 at the level crossing in Hamble Lane.
Below is a picture of the locomotive crossing Hamble Lane just above the Junior School...
and of a train crossing Hamble airfield...
The line crossing Hamble lane nearer the village is not part of the passenger rail network. The passenger line is situated further up Hamble Lane running upder the hump back bridge between the two schools, linking Hamble to Southamton Central and Portsmouth.
This one is of Hamble Halt as it used to be...
and today Hamble Halt is still an active station as this You Tube video shows...
If any readers have more photos or history of Hamble and its railway please
contact the website editor
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