There can't be that many stations on this line with 4 tracks going through the centre of the station; Bishopstoke definitely had them.
1842 a line to Gosport was added. 1847 a line to Dorchester was completed. The L&SWR was only too happy to encroach on GWR territory. Quite the busy junction then.
I tend to agree with you 'pre65'. This is almost certainly a picture of Bishopstoke/Eastleigh.
I wonder 'boilersuit', could this photo have been taken in the 1850s. I've attached a photo of Henry Willmer in old age, stationmaster at Bishopstoke from 1851 to sometime in the 1880s.
Compare him with the gentleman on the far right of of the original photo.
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