Cliddesden railway station was a railway station in the village of

Cliddesden Cliddesden is a village and a parish in Hampshire, England located 3 miles south of Basingstoke, close to the M3 motorway. In the 2001 census it had a population of 489, increasing to 497 at the 2011 Census. The land and housing are currently ...

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, ...

, England. The station was a stop on the

Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway The Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway was opened in 1901, by the London and South Western Railway. It was the first English railway authorised under Light Railway legislation. It ran through unpromising, lightly populated terrain, and was pro ...

until its closure in 1932.

History

When built, a

wind engine A windmill is a machine operated by the force of wind acting on vanes or sails to mill grain (gristmills), pump water, generate electricity, or drive other machinery. Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern periods; ...

was provided to supply the station buildings and cottages. It was made by

John Wallis Titt John Wallis Titt (1841–1910) was a late nineteenth-century English mechanical engineer and builder of a particular design of large wind engine. Early life Titt was born in 1841 at Chitterne, Wiltshire to John Titt and Eliza Titt (''née'' Wa ...

. The wind engine outlasted the railway, surviving until the 1940s. The station was used for the filming of 1937 film ''

Oh, Mr Porter! ''Oh, Mr Porter!'' is a 1937 British comedy film starring Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel. While not Hay's commercially most successful (although it grossed £500,000 at the box office – equal to ...

'' which features Cliddesden as the fictional ''Buggleskelly''.

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Disused railway stations in Hampshire Former London and South Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1901 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1924 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1936 {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub