There is a small diesel fleet for services on the West of England line to Salisbury, Exeter and Bristol, which is unelectrified beyond Basingstoke, the Wessex Main Line to Romsey, Salisbury, Bath, Bristol and Westbury, which is unelectrified past Redbridge, and for the Eastleigh to Romsey line, which is unelectrified past Eastleigh.

Southampton Airport is an airport in the UK, located north north-east of Southampton, in the Borough of Eastleigh within Hampshire, England.

Eastleigh is a railway town in Hampshire, England, and the main town in the Borough of Eastleigh.

Perhaps Eastleigh's most well known ' resident ' is the Spitfire aeroplane which was built in Southampton and first flown from Eastleigh Aerodrome ( now Southampton International Airport ).

Eastleigh Museum, which is to be found in the High Street holds information about the town and the surrounding villages, including Bishopstoke which had been the largest residential area.

Eastleigh Ladies Hockey Club is based in South Hampshire.

Eastleigh is also home to Eastleigh Rugby club and Trojans Rugby club.

The B & Q head office is on Chestnut Avenue in Eastleigh.

Southampton Airport, the 20th largest airport in the UK, is located in Eastleigh.

Southampton Airport is served by a dedicated mainline railway station, Southampton Airport Parkway, which is the next station stop ( 5 minutes ) from Eastleigh railway station.

Eastleigh is served by Eastleigh railway station, a mainline station on the South Western Main Line from London Waterloo ( just 66 minutes away ) and Winchester to Southampton, Bournemouth and Poole, with a fast and frequent service to those places.

Eastleigh is also located close to the junction between the M3 motorway and M27 motorway, giving easy road access to Southampton, Winchester, Bournemouth, Portsmouth and places between.

Southampton International Airport is located in the north west of the borough, just south of the town of Eastleigh itself.

At the start of the 1941 – 42 season they played their home games at Dew Lane, Eastleigh, before the Dell was re-opened in October 1941.

But it was to be followed by a string of heavy defeats at home 5 – 0 and 6 – 2 against Eastleigh & Bishop's Stortford.

B & Q plc is a British multinational DIY and home improvement retailing company headquartered in Eastleigh, United Kingdom.

They are believed to be in hiding in Eastleigh, an eastern suburb of Nairobi home to many immigrants.

One exception to this were the frequent balancing runs between their home depot of Eastleigh and their day-time out-stations of either Clapham Junction yard or Stewarts Lane depot in readiness for night-time postal and newspaper trains from Waterloo.

Eastleigh brought many a fan to Clarence Park with drums and all, and they took the lead when former Saint Matt Hann went down in the box and Eastleigh converted the penalty.

In France he participated in many raids over the enemy ’ s lines before he was transferred in September 1918 to Eastleigh, England.

Roman remains discovered in the Eastleigh area, including a Roman lead coffin excavated in 1908, indicate that a settlement probably existed here in Roman times.

Local bus services in Eastleigh are primarily operated by Solent Blue Line, with other operators including First Hampshire & Dorset and Stagecoach Group.

Most were transferred away to the North Eastern Region in the early 1960s following electrification, but several locomotives ( including some of the LMR allocation ) were re-allocated to Eastleigh in 1965 for possible use on the Isle of Wight replacing life expired ex-London and South Western railway " O2 " 0-4-4T engines, which dated from the turn of the century.

Dream 107. 2 was a local adult contemporary radio station, primarily serving Winchester, Eastleigh and their conurbations, owned by the Tindle Radio Group.

Part of this section became jointly owned with the London and South Western Railway ( LSWR ), following the opening of the LSWR line from Fareham to Portcreek Junction on 1 October 1848 ( connecting to the Eastleigh to Fareham line ).

There are plans for the former Day Aggregates site and sidings ( currently owned by Network Rail ) to be used as an engineering and infrastructure yard to provide vital relief on Eastleigh Yard and Hoo Junction.

By 1935 part of the site was being used by the Fleet Air Arm of the RAF and was briefly known as RAF Eastleigh before it became RAF Southampton in 1936.

Netley's fresh water was supplied by two aqueducts which ran for several miles east and west of the abbey, up into the areas of modern Southampton and Eastleigh.

The borough of Eastleigh was ranked the " 9th best place to live in the UK 2006 " by a Channel 4 programme.

Eastleigh has 17 bus routes, served by 6 different companies: Stagecoach South, Bluestar, Brijan Tours, First Group Hampshire, Wilts & Dorset or Velvet.

The largest was Eastleigh, which was built by the LSWR in 1909 to replace the cramped Nine Elms Locomotive Works in South London.

There are seven railway stations in the borough, served by the South Western Main Line, the Eastleigh to Romsey Line, the Eastleigh to Fareham Line, the West Coastway Line and the Cross Country Route.

For operation at Southampton Docks the Class was based in the former steam shed in the Old Docks near the River Itchen, work being carried out there by a fitter sent from Eastleigh.

* 07007-In use by Knights Rail Services Ltd at Eastleigh Works.

* An essay entitled " William Gilbert ( 1804 – 1890 ) of Bishopstoke " by a local historian can be viewed at Hampshire County Council, North Walls, Winchester Library, Eastleigh Museum and Eastleigh Library, which lists all of Gilbert's known works.

It is also linked by ferry to Warsash, and has some bus services to Southampton and Eastleigh.

Nowadays, the village can be easily accessed from Eastleigh and Fareham by train.

2004 / 05 saw Leyton finish fifth in the Isthmian Premier Division and reach the final of the play-offs for promotion to the Conference South, but the Lilywhites were beaten 2-1 in the final by Eastleigh.

During the construction of the new stands, a construction worker was crushed to death in February 2009, while prior to the Test match the new access road still had not been constructed ; meanwhile legal action by local hoteliers led to the construction of the hotel at the Northern End being put on hold, with the hoteliers objecting to the possible impact on competition and the use of public funds from Eastleigh Borough Council to fund its construction.

Hampshire found themselves £ 12 million in debt by the end of the 2011 season ; with the county unable to maintain the upkeep of the ground with their own finances, the decision was taken to sell the ground to Eastleigh Borough Council, with the council completing the purchase in January 2012.

While all the other carriages for these units were built by the SR at its Eastleigh Works, the Trailer First carriages ( which were laid out as dining cars ) were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company ( BRCW ) and the Trailer Restaurant Kitchen Third carriages by Metropolitan Cammell.