Litchfield railway station

Litchfield railway station, on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway, served the village of Litchfield, Hampshire, England. By the 1920s, the station served approximately 20 passengers per week. It closed in 1960.

Station layout

The station was originally built with two platforms and a passing loop in the same style as other stations on the route. However, low traffic resulted in the removal of the loop in 1936, only for a longer loop and the platform to be reinstated in 1943 to deal with wartime traffic. This was then removed again in 1955. There was a small siding and headshunt on the northbound line but goods traffic at the station was light.

The site today

The station was sold by Hampshire County Council in 1978 and has been restored, and is now a private house; the approach road is now a private drive to the property. In 1976 the Litchfield–Whitchurch bypass was opened and made use of the trackbed south of the village.