Kingsley Halt was a railway station on the

Bordon Light Railway The Bordon Light Railway was a short-lived light railway line in Hampshire that connected the Army Camp at Bordon, as well as the villages of Bordon and Kingsley, with the national rail network at Bentley on the main Farnham-Alton line, a distanc ...

which served the village of

Kingsley, Hampshire Kingsley is a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 2.1 miles (3.4 km) north of Bordon, on the B3004 road. The village has a community centre and an inn, the ''Cricketers''. The Victorian parish church of All Sai ...

, England. The station had been constructed by the

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and South Western Railway (LSWR) in the hope that the area would attract residential development, but this did not happen. The LSWR had purchased an area of land far larger than that what was actually used, as they hoped to construct a large station and goods yard. A primitive halt with a single platform opened some months after the line's opening, consisting merely of a nameboard, noticeboard, lamp and seat. Declining passenger traffic and reduced military activities at

Bordon Bordon is a town in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It lies in the interior of the royal Woolmer Forest, about southeast of Alton. The town forms a part of the civil parish of Whitehill which is one of two contiguous villages ...

after the

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saw the line's closure to regular services in 1957. Kingsley Halt was demolished soon after closure, and nothing now remains except the shape of the trackbed, now used as a farm track.

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Kingsley Halt on Subterranea Britannica
{{Closed stations Hampshire Disused railway stations in Hampshire Former London and South Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1906 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1957

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