Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway in Basingstoke, England

The middle of a traffic roundabout isn’t the place you would expect to find a railway. And railways are normally longer than a couple of meters. But in the middle of the Viables Roundabout in Basingstoke, this is exactly what you can find. While it only runs for a few meters now, the railway once stretched from a station at the town center to a station in the nearby town of Alton. While Alton still has a railway station, there is no longer a railway between the two towns. The Light…

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