Thaoughts on the Railway and Eastleigh's Past

THOUGHTS ON THE RAILWAY AND EASTLEIGH’S PAST
The first train to run through Eastleigh was on 10th June 1839. It could only go as far as Winchester since the line from there to Basingstoke being laid by the London and Southampton Company was not finished. People living in Portsmouth, to which town there was to be a branch line, disliked the name and it was changed to the London and South Western Railway Company. In 1923 it merged with other lines to become the Southern Railway. (Since then, the railways have been nationalised and denationalised and the local system is known as South West Trains.)