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Southampton [a] is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England.It is located approximately 80 miles (130 km) southwest of London, 20 miles (32 km) west of Portsmouth, and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Salisbury.
The first written proposal for a railway line linking London and Southampton was published on 23 October 1830 by a group chaired by the Southampton MP Abel Rous Dottin. [2] [3] The following February, Francis Giles was commissioned to survey the route and a formal scheme, which also included the construction of new docks on the Solent, was presented at a public meeting on 6 April 1831. [4]
The station is approached from the London direction by passing through Southampton Tunnel and is 79 miles 19 chains (127.5 km) measured from London Waterloo. [ note 1 ] It is the busiest station in Hampshire.
From London Waterloo, SWR's London terminus, long-distance trains run to southern England, including the major coastal population centres of Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole and Weymouth. There are also trains to Reading and Exeter, but these are not the principal fast services from London to those cities, which are operated from ...
The M3 is a motorway in England, from Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, to Eastleigh, Hampshire; a distance of approximately 59 miles (95 km).The route includes the Aldershot Urban Area, Basingstoke, Winchester, and Southampton.
Southampton Terminus railway station served the Port of Southampton and Southampton City Centre, England from 1840 until 1966. The station was authorised on 25 July 1834 and built as the terminus of the London and Southampton Railway , which later changed its name to the London and South Western Railway (LSWR).