Happy Birthday Bournemouth train station - opened 20th July 1885

[Kettledrum]

Bournemouth train station has a poster up to celebrate it's birthday today!

It is now 140 years old.

Apparently The station was designed by William Jacob, chief engineer of the London and South Western Railway, and opened on 20 July 1885 as Bournemouth East; it replaced the original station of the same name on the other side of Holdenhurst Road from 1870 to 1885.

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The station was designed by William Jacob, chief engineer of the London and South Western Railway, and opened on 20 July 1885 as Bournemouth East replacing the original station of the same name which was located on the other side of Holdenhurst Road. The station was located some distance away from the town centre on the insistence of town authorities of the time. It was renamed Bournemouth Central on 1 May 1899 and became Bournemouth on 10 July 1967. By 1967 third rail electrification had reached Bournemouth and continued beyond to Branksome and Bournemouth Depot but no further....

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Apparently when the new East railway station at Bournemouth was opened for passenger traffic on Monday 20th July 1885, it did so without any formal ceremony.

Described in the 'London Daily Chronicle' as "a handsome and commodious structure" and having been built at a cost of some £40,000 by Messrs. Perry and Co., of Bow, from designs prepared by the (chief?) engineer of the London and South Western railway company. When opened, the structure was reported as being 350 feet long, with a 95 feet span, with a glass roof positioned some 40 feet above the platforms, carried on massive iron girders, each of which weighed 17 tons. The platforms were said to be 25 feet wide. The station was renamed 'Bournemouth Central' in 1899.

 

[Turtle]

Bournemouth train station has a poster up to celebrate it's birthday today!

It is now 140 years old.

Apparently The station was designed by William Jacob, chief engineer of the London and South Western Railway, and opened on 20 July 1885 as Bournemouth East; it replaced the original station of the same name on the other side of Holdenhurst Road from 1870 to

Bournemouth train station has a poster up to celebrate it's birthday today!

It is now 140 years old.

Apparently The station was designed by William Jacob, chief engineer of the London and South Western Railway, and opened on 20 July 1885 as Bournemouth East; it replaced the original station of the same name on the other side of Holdenhurst Road from 1870 to 1885.

National Transport Trust

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RALWAY Station

 

[Snow1964]

Apparently when the new East railway station at Bournemouth was opened for passenger traffic on Monday 20th July 1885, it did so without any formal ceremony.

Initially it replaced the original station on other side of the road, but the direct line (Lymington Junction - Christchurch) was delayed by massive landslip near Sway (which is why the 3 intermediate stations, Sway, New Milton, Hinton Admiral) all have 1886 on the stonework above their entrances but the line didn't open until March 1888

So the big new station was for first 2-3 years at the end of single track branch line from Ringwood via Hurn. The branch line had originally opened to Christchurch, was later extended to Bournemouth (East).

The direct line works included doubling the line and lowering it about 2m near Boscombe to eliminate all the level crossings, whilst not making approaches to road overbridges too steep. The LSWR had sensibly realised level crossings on main lines were not great idea by 1880s, so there are none from Brockenhurst to near Poole.

The Lymington Junction - Christchurch was one of the LSWR mid 1880s cut off lines built to mainline standards, the stations on (now closed) Hurstbourne - Fullerton direct line are virtually identical which suggests were using common design for country stations by then.

Another new line continued towards Bournemouth West. The current direct line completing the triangle to Branksome was a few years later.

 

[J663738]

Yes Happy Birthday!
Bournemouth Station a bit like Brighton Station which seems to pride itself in being no where near the sea front!