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Long journey times between Portsmouth and Southampton. Congestion on some lines. Lack of Rail connection to Southampton Cruise terminals, the Waterside (Fawley and Hythe) and Gosport - the largest town in the UK with no rail station. Slow and congested lines into Waterloo. No freight or passenger rail connection to Portsmouth Port.
In Portsmouth, First bought several new buses between 2015 and 2020 to replace older buses running on these routes, with Wright StreetLite MAX buses being bought for the "Solent Rangers" routes which link Southampton with Portsmouth and Gosport to replace the Scania N94UB Omnicitys that covered the route in late 2015. [28]
Further competition on the corridor appeared in September 2009, when Portsmouth and Southampton became the first destinations to be served by Greyhound UK, owned by FirstGroup; [30] this service ceased in November 2012. [31] Solent Blue Line operated a service linking Portsmouth to Southampton for four years from 2005. Prior to Blue Line's ...
With the junction at St Denys the West Coastway Line joins the route of the South West Main Line. In July 2022, Transport for the South East proposed that an underground line should be built to connect Southampton Central and Netley stations, thus shortening the travel time between Southampton and Portsmouth to under 35 minutes. [13]
The route saw a brief reprieve in April 2008, when the service ran for two days on 26 and 27 of that month, as part of the Caribbean festival in Southampton. As Solent Blue Line no longer had the open-top buses for the routes, a hired Southern Vectis open-top bus was used.
The X4 inter-urban bus service benefited from £4.4 million ODPM Growth Area Funding between 2003 and 2006 and has seen annual passenger numbers rise from 325,000 in 2003/04 to over 500,000 in 2004/05.
Portsmouth International Port is preparing for a record year, with 94 cruise ships to set sail from the harbour in 2025 – including a debut for Ritz-Carlton’s latest luxury yacht.
Fareham was already connected with Portsmouth, so by this means, a through route from Southampton to Portsmouth was created. In 1990 the line was electrified, and the passenger train service pattern was changed, with many more trains taking advantage of the Farlington Junction to Cosham chord, to run direct from Havant to Fareham avoiding ...