Portsmouth and Southsea, coming off the high level branch (now the main line) to Portsmouth Harbour. Before the rationalisation that saw the Post Office and Matalan occupy half of the low level station platform area where parcels traffic used to be shunted. Greetham Street EMU stabling sidings in the foreground. The loco is about to enter the cutting known as Canal Walk, between Portsmouth and Southsea and Fratton stations, which was the route of the original east-west canal from Langstone Harbour to Portsmouth Harbour and the Dockyard. It's pretty rare to have cuttings in Portsmouth. Most of the land is no more than six feet above sea level.