Trains at Eastleigh, SWML, 21/05/25

Eastleigh railway station serves the town of Eastleigh in the English county of Hampshire. It is located on the South West Main Line and is the junction station for two other routes, the Eastleigh-Fareham Line and the Eastleigh-Romsey Line. It is 73 miles 35 chains (118.2 km) from London Waterloo. South of the station are Eastleigh Railway Works and Eastleigh Depot.

The station was built by the LSWR and was called Bishopstoke when it was opened in 1839. The station-house was designed by Sir William Tite and has been Grade II listed since 1983.

It was renamed Bishopstoke Junction in 1852 (the branch to Fareham and Gosport having opened in 1841), Eastleigh and Bishopstoke in 1889, and finally Eastleigh Station in 1923.

The station has been a busy and important junction throughout its life, having gained a second branch line to Salisbury via Romsey in 1847 and a large carriage & wagon repair shops (later to become Eastleigh Works) in 1891. The main Waterloo to Bournemouth line was electrified in 1967, but the Romsey line closed to passenger traffic two years later in May 1969.

The Portsmouth line remained diesel worked until 1990, but was then added to the electrified network. Passenger services over the line to Romsey restarted in 2003.
In 2015 the forecourt of the station received major improvements at a cost of £500,000.

Duration of the video: 10:30 - 12:50

We’ll be seeing services by South Western Railway, Cross Country & some freight as well.

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I really enjoyed my time session that was spent at Eastleigh especially with the amount of variety I had although the weather wasn’t great than I thought it would be but on the positive sign there was quite a fair amount of freight that I saw pass through the station considering I haven’t been to Eastleigh before but it was great to come to though hopefully the next time I’m at the station the weather will be a bit better.

My next station is Southampton Central which is just a few stops up the line from here I’ve never visited this station before but hopefully it’ll be a good station to come to but until then thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next video.