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THE SAME BUS
Sets off under the M3 motorway then struggles up to Oliver's Battery on the way into Winchester.
To the right of the bus can be seen the low viaduct which carried the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway over the watermeadows to the south of Winchester. This was between Winchester Chesil, Winchester's other railway station and Shawford Jct, where it joined the mainline from Waterloo to Southampton.
This cross country route carried a lot of freight to and from Southampton Docks during WW2. However when the war finished a lot of its strategic importance was lost and it lived a slow, lingering death until being closed around 1965. Tha viaduct is a listed structure and therefore cannot be demolished.
THE SAME BUS
Sets off under the M3 motorway then struggles up to Oliver's Battery on the way into Winchester.
To the right of the bus can be seen the low viaduct which carried the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway over the watermeadows to the south of Winchester. This was between Winchester Chesil, Winchester's other railway station and Shawford Jct, where it joined the mainline from Waterloo to Southampton.
This cross country route carried a lot of freight to and from Southampton Docks during WW2. However when the war finished a lot of its strategic importance was lost and it lived a slow, lingering death until being closed around 1965. Tha viaduct is a listed structure and therefore cannot be demolished.