Liss railway station

Liss railway station is a stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line, serving the village of Liss in Hampshire, England, 51 miles 35 chains (82.8 km) down the line from London Waterloo via Woking.[1] As a small station, for most of the day there is one train each way (to Portsmouth and London) an hour. The station is managed by South Western Railway, which operates all trains serving it.

Not to be confused with Lyss railway station.
Liss
Location
PlaceLiss
Local authorityEast Hampshire
Grid referenceSU777277
Operations
Station codeLIS
Managed bySouth Western Railway
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryD
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.230 million
2015/16 0.236 million
2016/17 0.240 million
2017/18 0.240 million
2018/19 0.247 million
History
Key datesOpened 1 January 1859 (1 January 1859)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Liss from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station had a platform adjacent to the main line, which was the southern terminus of the Longmoor Military Railway. The former station goods yard connected to the LMR via Liss Junction. The footbridge was replaced on the night of 1/2 April 1967 by the ex-London, Brighton and South Coast Railway one from the former Cranleigh railway station.[2]

Services

As of May 2019, the current off-peak service in trains per hour is:

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Liphook   South Western Railway
Portsmouth Direct Line		   Petersfield
Disused railways
Liss Forest Road   Longmoor Military Railway   Terminus

References
  1. Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 26B. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. "Various observations on RA49". Railway Archive. 50: 52. March 2016.
  • Longmoor Military Railway platform


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