So we decided to dive into our archives to find out how different they looked in the decades gone past.
You can see the photos we found in our gallery below.
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It includes images of Portsmouth and Southsea station as well as Station Street.
5. Memories of Portsmouth & Southsea railway station
Portsmouth & Southsea railway station and the Civic Offices in this March 1978 shot by former News photographer Dave Morris Photo: The News archive
6. Memories of Portsmouth & Southsea railway station
An engine driver showing a group of schoolboys over the Lord Nelson Class locomotive, Lord Hawke, during a train exhibition at Portsmouth Town Station, 21st October 1933. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: The News archive
7. Memories of Portsmouth & Southsea railway station
A look from the diving cab of a down passenger train we see a vastly altered scene at Portsmouth & Southsea railway station Photo: The News archive
8. Memories of Portsmouth & Southsea railway station
A troop train at Portsmouth Town station taking Hampshire Regiment soldiers to camp. Taken at Portsmouth Town low level station we see a troop train preparing to leave for summer camp with soldiers from the Hampshire Regiment. Photo: The News archive