Hilsea railway station is a railway station on Airport Service Road,

Hilsea Hilsea is a district of the city of Portsmouth in the English county of Hampshire. Hilsea is home to one of Portsmouth's main sports and leisure facilities – the Mountbatten centre. Trafalgar School (formerly the City of Portsmouth Boys' School ...

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serving the northern end of

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, including a large industrial estate nearby. The station was once the closest to Portsmouth Airport, which was closed in 1973. It is located on the Portsmouth Direct line which runs between

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and

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. There were extensive sidings at Hilsea during

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. This railway station is mainly used by commuters who work in nearby Anchorage Park industrial estate. Only stopping trains stop here. The station is unmanned. Historically, during the Battle of Havant, Hilsea was the terminus of an omnibus link from Havant New, just east of Havant. When the Portsmouth Direct Line had been constructed by the LSWR, at the request of the residents of Portsmouth, it was necessary that trains run from the Portcreek Junction railway triangle, to Havant Junction, along track owned by the rival LBSCR. The latter firm refused to allow that and engaged in militant obstruction of the track to prevent the running of a through train service for several months. The road that crosses over the railway line and station at Hilsea is named Norway Road after the novelist and aeronautical engineer, Nevil Shute Norway.

Services

Services at Hilsea are operated by South Western Railway and

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using , , and

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to via * 1 tph to London Waterloo via * 1 tph to * 1 tph to * 4 tph to of which 1 continues to During the peak hours, there are additional services to London Waterloo as well as services to and .

Gallery

File:Hilseastn48.JPG File:HilseaStn52.JPG File:Hilseastn54.JPG File:Hilseastn58.JPG File:Havant & Portsmouth RJD 11.jpg, A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Hilsea railway station

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{{SWT Stations, Portsmouth Direct=y, Hampshire Locals=y, Suburban None=y, IL None=y Railway stations in Portsmouth DfT Category E stations Former Southern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1941 Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway Railway stations served by South Western Railway