Talk:Barton Stacey railway station

Closure

 * ''copied from Talk:Disused railway stations (Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway) -- Red rose64 (talk) 14:13, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

I have it on verbal authority from Kevin Robertson (author or co-author of at least three books on the line) that Barton Stacey was closed September 1941, and the fact is mentioned in something called "Sutton Scotney: Life of a Country Station". Need to get hold of a copy - anybody got one? --Redrose64 (talk) 23:03, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Grid ref

 * Copied from Talk:Disused railway stations (Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway) -- Red rose64 (talk) 20:28, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

The position of Barton Stacey is surmised, because it's not on my map (OS 1" 6th edition sheet 168); the grid ref quoted is that of an overbridge just south of the station. The station wasn't there long: Kevin Robertson's "On Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Lines" describes it as "a short-lived wartime halt ... gone by 1941", whereas C.W. Judge's "An Historical Survey of the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway" says "in 1940, when it was built ... it is presumed it ceased operation at the end of the war". --Redrose64 (talk) 16:34, 30 July 2009 (UTC)