Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway
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Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway
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The Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway was opened in 1901, by the London and South Western Railway. It was the first English railway authorised under Light Railway legislation. It ran through unpromising, lightly populated terrain, and was probably built only to exclude competitors from building a line in the area. It had steep gradients and a line speed limit of 20 mph, later raised to 25 mph. It never attracted much business and the hoped-for through traffic never materialised. When the War O
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke_and_Alton_Light_Railway
date created:
2007-05-13T11:09:08Z
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2024-09-04T22:36:16Z
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