{{Short description|Former railway line and nature walk in Hampshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}}
thumb|right|As seen from Highlands RoadThe ''' Funtley Deviation '''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/pdf/Eastleigh%20Supp%20Rail%20Study%20Oct08.pdf |title=Transport in the Eastleigh area |access-date=18 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723094823/http://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/pdf/Eastleigh%20Supp%20Rail%20Study%20Oct08.pdf |archive-date=23 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was a 2-mile (3.2 kilometres) long<ref>"The Fareham to Eastleigh Line" Keat, P.J: Gosport, Gosport Railway Society, 1990</ref> double track railway<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.hawkins.tyd/Tyd/whatnaturegave.htm |title=Travel in the Meon Valley |access-date=18 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025031246/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.hawkins.tyd/Tyd/whatnaturegave.htm |archive-date=25 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> opened as a single line in 1904 and as a double line in 1906<ref>"Lost Railways of Hampshire" Oppitz, L: Newbury, Countryside Books, 2001 {{ISBN|1-85306-689-3}}</ref> to provide an alternative to the 1841 railway line north of Fareham which traversed the precarious Fareham tunnel. Unfortunately the deviation line suffered from stability problems of its own and it was eventually closed on 6 May 1973, in favour of the original route, and is now a nature walk<ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/733409 Geograph]</ref> with a small car park at the Highlands Road end.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://local.upmystreet.com/pictures-of-po15-6ha.html |title=Up my street |access-date=18 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820054920/http://local.upmystreet.com/pictures-of-po15-6ha.html |archive-date=20 August 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The route south of Highlands Road was sold for housing.
Fareham station was opened by the London and South Western Railway on 29 November 1841 on the line from Eastleigh to Gosport. Later additions connected Fareham station with Southampton, Portsmouth and along the coast towards Brighton. The Meon Valley Line, Gosport and Clarence Yard Line, Stokes Bay Line and Lee-on-Solent Line from Fareham have all been closed.
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Category:Rail transport in Hampshire Category:Closed railway lines in South East England Category:1904 establishments in England Category:Railway lines closed in 1974 Category:1906 establishments in England Category:1974 disestablishments in England
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