Liss Forest Road railway station served the hamlet of

Liss Forest Liss Forest is a hamlet neighbouring the larger village of Liss, in Hampshire, England. It formerly had its own railway station on the now closed Longmoor Military Railway. Liss Forest has a pub A pub (short for public house) is a kin ...

neighbouring the larger village of Liss, in

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...

. It is situated adjacent to Forest Road which runs from the A3 to Liss Forest. The road was crossed by a level crossing controlled by a block post, the Army's name for a signal box, which was usually un-staffed unless training was in progress. The station opened when the

Longmoor Military Railway The Longmoor Military Railway (LMR) was a British military railway in Hampshire, built by the Royal Engineers from 1903 in order to train soldiers on railway construction and operations. The railway ceased operation on 31 October 1969. Route ...

(LMR) extended its line to Liss, work started on the extension in 1924 and it was completed by August 1933. The station had one platform with no facilities on the north side of the line which had a passing loop here, by 1963 the station is reported to have two platforms, it was the last station on Army property. A fatal accident occurred near the station on 13 October 1956. Two trains were due to cross at the station's passing loop but one of them didn't continuing onto the single track section towards where it collided head-on with the other train killing six people and injuring eight, one seriously. The station was closed along with the rest of the line on 31 October 1969.

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