page_title: Beaulieu Road railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Beaulieu Road railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Beaulieu Road Station. View southward, towards Bournemouth; London - Southampton - Bournemouth - Weymouth main line. This station is in the heart of the New Forest, nowhere near anywhere, being over 3 miles from Beaulieu and about the same distance the other way from Lyndhurst, but has survived well.
context_page_description: Beaulieu Road railway station is located at the point where the South Western Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth crosses the B3056 road from Beaulieu to Lyndhurst in Hampshire, England. It is 88 miles 6 chains down the line from Waterloo. Beaulieu Road is the least used station in Hampshire according to the official passenger statistics.
context_section_description: Opened by the Southampton and Dorchester Railway (S&DR) on 1 June 1847, the station was not originally intended to serve the village of Beaulieu, which lies some 3.5 miles (5.5 km) distant. The railway company were obliged to open it as a 'personal' station for Lord Montagu, a concession to him for allowing the railway to be built over part of his Beaulieu Estate. A special signal would indicate to the train drivers that they should stop for Lord Montagu and his guests.
  The station was closed by the London and South Western Railway (which had absorbed the S&DR in 1848) on 1 March 1860, and reopened on 1 November 1895. It was destaffed in the early 1960s.
caption: The station in 1963
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