The Grey Arrows 3rd Annual Birthday Competition and Treasure Hunt

My submission for item 12 - A train station

The video shows Portsmouth Harbour Station on Sunday August 2, 2020 at around 06:40

I claim a bonus for 5 or more platforms

Full disclosure: The station has five platforms. Platform 2 is decommissioned for structural reasons

Portsmouth Harbour railway station is a railway station in Portsmouth, England. It is situated beside Gunwharf Quays in the city’s harbour, and is an important transport terminal, with a bus interchange and ferry services to Gosport and the Isle of Wight. The station currently has four platforms in use: numbered 1, 3, 4 and 5. It is managed by South Western Railway. Platform 2 is no longer in use, having been decommissioned in the early 1990s following major repair and refurbishment work to the pier that the platforms sit on. The station is built on a pier made of wood[citation needed], between the Gunwharf Quays shopping centre and the Historic Dockyard

The station opened in 1876 as the terminus of Chief Engineers Frederick Banister’s Portsmouth Waterside Extension to the Portsmouth Direct Line, which runs between this station and London Waterloo station. It was rebuilt in 1937 when the route was electrified but was almost totally destroyed during World War II by fire after German bombing, then rebuilt after the war. (Taken from Wikipedia)

The video shows the Spinnaker Tower, two Wightlink FastCat passenger ferries, the green and white vessel is one of the three that provide the Gosport Ferry service. On shore is the Hard Travel Interchange which ferry, taxi, train, bus and coach passengers pass through

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