Liss railway station
Liss railway station is a stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line, serving the village of Liss in Hampshire, England, 51 miles 35 chains (82.8 km) down the line from London Waterloo via Woking.[1] As a small station, for most of the day there is one train each way (to Portsmouth and London) an hour. The station is managed by South Western Railway, which operates all trains serving it.
Liss  | |
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| Location | Liss, East Hampshire England |
| Coordinates | 51°02′38″N 0°53′35″W |
| Grid reference | SU777277 |
| Managed by | South Western Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | LIS |
| Classification | DfT category D |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 January 1859 |
| Passengers | |
| 2015/16 |  0.236 million |
| 2016/17 | 0.240 million |
| 2017/18 |  0.240 million |
| 2018/19 | 0.247 million |
| 2019/20 | 0.329 million |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
The station had a platform adjacent to the main line, which was the southern terminus of the Longmoor Military Railway. The former station goods yard connected to the LMR via Liss Junction. The footbridge was replaced on the night of 1/2 April 1967 by the ex-London, Brighton and South Coast Railway bridge from the former Cranleigh railway station.[2]
Services
As of May 2019, the current off-peak service in trains per hour is:
- 1 tph to London Waterloo via Guildford
- 1 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea (all stations)
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liphook | South Western Railway Portsmouth Direct Line |
Petersfield | ||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Liss Forest Road | Longmoor Military Railway | Terminus | ||
References
- Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 26B. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
- "Various observations on RA49". Railway Archive. 50: 52. March 2016.
Gallery
Longmoor Military Railway platform