Highclere Railway Station (The Old Station)
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Highclere Railway Station (The Old Station)
Image: © Oscar Taylor Taken: 17 May 2023
Highclere Railway Station was a station on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway line. The building is now a private house on Spring Lane. The station opened in 1885 on the 4th of May, and was open until the 7th of March 1960 when it closed to passengers. It was also closed for a brief period during WWII (4th August 1942 until 8th March 1943). The station was named Highclere Railway Station as opposed to Burghclere Railway Station as it took the name of the Highclere Estate and Highclere Castle, assumedly due to bigwigging from the Earls of Carnarvon. There was also a station called Burghclere Railway Station, which was further from Burghclere and instead served Kingsclere. This side would have been where one would enter the station from the road, with the tracks being on the other side of the building.
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