Until 1963 when the line was closed, Terrier steam locomotives pulled carriages along the Hayling Billy line from Havant station on the mainland to a station which was located at the northern end of Staunton Avenue, passing through Langstone where there was a Halt.

The village used to have rail links with Hayling Island and Havant in the form of the Hayling Billy railway, however the lines have since been torn up and the route replaced with a cycle and bridlepath.

The remains of the Hayling Billy rail bridge over to Hayling Island can still be seen.

Later in their careers, some engines were known as " Hayling Billy " on account of their work on the Hayling Island branch line.

The brewery wanted to purchase it for use outside a new public house to be opened on Hayling Island named The Hayling Billy.

Hayling Island is an island off the south coast of England, in the borough of Havant in the county of Hampshire.

The grave of Princess Yourievsky ( 1878-1959 ) who was a member of the ill-fated Russian Royal family and who lived in North Hayling for many years, may be found in St. Peter's churchyard ; and the grave of Scotsman George Glas Sandeman, nephew of the founder of Sandeman Port and second head of that company, is prominently featured in the north-east part of St. Mary's graveyard.

Hayling Island is a true island, completely surrounded by sea.

The coastline in this area has substantially changed since Roman times: it is believed much land has been lost from the coasts of Hayling and Selsey by erosion and subsequent flooding.

Although largely residential, Hayling is also a holiday, windsurfing and sailing centre, the site where windsurfing was invented.

A funfair ( Funland ) situated at Beachlands, is open year round, as is the East Hayling Light Railway which runs from the funfair to Eastoke corner.

The Hayling Ferry is the most convenient way to travel between Portsmouth and Hayling Island.

The Ferry is busy in the summer if the weather is good, bringing tourists and cyclists to Hayling.

Apart from the ferry the only public connection between Hayling Island and the mainland is a single carriageway road linking Northney to Langstone, Havant.

A tourist attraction — the East Hayling Light Railway — is a gauge railway that runs for just over from Beachlands Station to Eastoke Corner with aspirations to extend the route to Ferry Point within the next few years.

The nearest railway station to Hayling Island is Havant, just onto the mainland off Hayling Island.

The island is the home of the Hayling Charity Cycle Ride.

Now in its 27th year, the event is moving from its established country of France to Holland, calling this year's event the ' Hayling to Holland Charity Cycle Ride ' with 130 riders and support crew.

There is an early Norman period report that much land on the south of Hayling Island was lost to sea flood.

South of Hayling Island in the Solent is a deposit of stones, which scuba divers found to be the remains of a stone building, probably a church.

There is an old report that this church was formerly in the middle of Hayling Island.

There is currently a ferry service Hayling Island Ferry linking Eastney and Ferry Point, on Hayling Island.

Mengham is the largest settlement on Hayling Island in Hampshire, England.

East of Mengham on Hayling Island ( in England ), Tourner Bury is the site of an Iron Age fort, as well as a woodland.

Since July 2006, the Hayling Island platform face no longer exists and a new cycle centre has been built in place of the former platform.

They lasted longer than most classes of pre-grouping tank engine under the Southern Railway, primarily due to the presence of several light railways which came under the Southern Railway's jurisdiction at the grouping, such as the lines from Tenterden and Hayling Island, as well as on the Isle of Wight.

In 1884 the Isle of Wight Marine Transit Company started a rail freight ferry link between the Hayling Island Branch Line at Langstone and the Bembridge branch line at St Helens quay.

In 1884, the Isle of Wight Marine Transit Company started a rail freight ferry link between the Bembridge branch line at St Helens quay and the Hayling Island Branch line at Langstone.

Although the number of engines dwindled following the Second World War as the work they were used for was either dieselised or lost to rail through the closure of branch lines and yards, a number continued in operation through into the 1960s, most famously on the Hayling Island line in Hampshire.

Hayling Island has a Non-League football club Hayling United F. C., which plays at Hayling College.

In 1996, the oyster beds on the north west coast of Hayling Island were restored by the Havant Borough Council, creating a wildlife haven which has become an important seabird breeding site.

Tabur lawyers found prior art, in a local English newspaper which had published a story with a picture about Peter Chilvers, who as a young boy on Hayling Island on the south coast of England, assembled his first board combined with a sail, in 1958.

The A27 road runs past its southern side, beyond which lies Langstone, and then Hayling Island.

FC Kahuna released Machine Says Yes in the spring of 2002, which had a number of singles released from it, most notably " Machine Says Yes " and " Hayling ", which both featured Icelandic singer Hafdís Huld on vocals.

The village surrounds " Langstone Road " which leads to Hayling Island.

The first A1X to be withdrawn by the Southern Railway was No. 42 Tulse Hill in 1925, and among the engines withdrawn was the now-famous No. 55 Stepney, which only escaped being scrapped by virtue of the need for lighter engines on Hayling Island.

Together with Chichester Harbour, which is at the other ( eastern ) side of Hayling Island it is designated as a Special Protection Area for wildlife.

The eastern boundary with Chichester Harbour is defined by an historic causeway known as the wade way, which was originally the only crossing between Hayling Island and the mainland.

He resumed his ownership of the Hayling Island supermarket, which he continued to run until the late 1970s.

He also carried out at his own expense valuable pioneering work on the Anopheles mosquito for which purpose he had installed a full research unit on Hayling Island.

The natural beach at Hayling was predominantly sandy but in recent years it has been mechanically topped with shingle dredged from the bed of the Solent in an effort to reduce beach erosion and reduce the potential to flood low lying land.

Hayling Golf Club has been voted in the top 100 golf courses in the UK.

Shallice has also part authored neuropsychological tests including the Hayling and Brixton tests and the Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome ( BADS ).

There has also been discussion about reinstating the Hayling Island platform, and even the whole Hayling Island branch.