Railway viaduct at Itchen Abbas
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Railway viaduct at Itchen Abbas
Image: © Graham Horn Taken: 23 Mar 2011
The viaduct is still here but no trains have used it since the line closed in 1973. It had opened from Alton to Winchester in 1865 as the Mid Hants Railway. Today the section from Alton to Alresford (east of here) is run as the Watercress Line preserved steam railway.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.094717
Longitude
-1.236829