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During the early years fast trains to London were limited by law to twenty mph. The single fare was 22/- (£1.10p) on the fast service but there was also a slow third class stopping service with open carriages which cost only 8/6 [421/2p]. Mixed trains of first and second class carriages were also run and charged at the rate of 21/-[£1.05p1 First Class and 15/- [75p] Second Class. The line was unfortunate enough to suffer from early vandalism when in 1842 two juveniles received sentences of imprisonment, from the Gosport Magistrates, one of one month and the other of three months for throwing stones at trains. |
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The Royal connection with Gosport railway station began on 8th October 1843 when Prince Albert came by train to greet His Majesty Louis - Phillipe, King of France. The first recorded visit to Gosport station by Queen Victoria came six days later when she accompanied the King on his return to France. |
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Royal Clarence Yard |
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In 1846, the renovation of Osborne House at Cowes on the Isle of Wight was completed and upon remembering her previous trip to Gosport the Queen requested that the ramparts be opened ( a request that the Commanding Officer of the Garrison readily agreed) and a 600 yard extension was laid into the Royal Clarence Yard where a special station the Royal Victoria Station was built and partly still stands to this day. |
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Funeral Plans |
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With the death of Queen Victoria hasty funeral plans had to be made as she had died on 22nd January 1901 at Osborne House. On 1st February of that year her body was brought across the Solent and lay in state overnight behind the Guard House of St George Barracks. The following day many crowned heads of Europe and their escorts boarded the funeral train at the Royal Victoria Station and accompanied the body to London and thence onto Frogmore and her interment. A unique and very important occasion not only in the history of the Gosport branch but also of the town itself. |
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Stokes Bay |
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In 1863 a branch line was opened via a connecting triangle on the main line and about half a mile from the main Gosport Station, to Stokes Bay where it joined up with a ferry link to Ryde on the Isle of Wight. The ferries on this service ceased in Spring 1914 and the rail link was withdrawn on 30th October 1915. The pier remained for many years after closure and for some time was used by the Admiralty as a torpedo testing station. |
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