Viables Roundabout (Basingstoke)

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A five-point roundabout in the Viables industrial area of south Basingstoke. In the centre of the roundabout is one of the shortest pieces of standard gauge track in the world and commemorates the Basingstoke & Alton Light railway. The piece of track is more or less on the original alignment. The course of the line can be clearly traced by boundaries and trees on the aerial photograph, on an alignment roughly NNW to SSE. Further north it picks up the line of the ring road, and to the south of Basingstoke it can also be traced across the M3 to Cliddesden and beyond.
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Coordinates:   51°14'54"N   1°5'57"W

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  • The reference to the real railway in the caption is incorrect. The line DID pass through the site of the roundabout (which wasn't built until long after the railway closed), and the piece of track is more or less on the original alignment. The course of the line can be clearly traced by boundaries and trees on the aerial photograph, on an alignment roughly NNW to SSE. Further north it picks up the line of the ring road, and to the south of Basingstoke it can also be traced across the M3 to Cliddesden and beyond.
  • The description is now correct, so my comment above is superseded.
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