Twyford railway station

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Twyford

Location

Place

Twyford

Local authority

Wokingham (district)

Operations

Station code

TWY

Managed by

First Great Western

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Passenger Usage

2004/05 **

1.083 million

History

Key dates

Opened 1840

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Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Twyford (source)

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Twyford railway station is a railway station in the village of Twyford in the county of Berkshire in England.

The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western from London Paddington, 50 km (31 miles) east. to Reading stations. Twyford is also the junction for the Henley-on-Thames branch.

The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway, which opened as far as Reading in 1840. It has 5 platforms. Platform 1 and 2 are on the Main Reading-London lines, with Platform 1 being the "up" line (from London). Trains rarely stop on these platforms. Platforms 3 and 4 are the "relief line" platforms, with platform 3 being the "up" line. Platform 5 is a West facing bay platform with access only to the Henley Branch Line. Platform 4 also allows access to the Henley Branch.

A large carpark is reachable by an ungated level crossing over the single-line Henley branch, and is often full with morning commuters.

In 2005, Norman Topson, the station master for 16 years and local rail worker for 43 years, was an awarded an MBE for service to the railway industry and community.

[edit] Services

Monday to Saturdays there are four trains per hour to London Paddington eastbound and to Reading westbound (with a half-hourly service onwards to Oxford. Sundays there is a half-hourly service in each direction.

Typical train times are 50 minutes to London (Paddington) and 7 minutes to Reading. In the peak there are a few through trains to London taking between 25 and 30 minutes.

These services are summarised in the following table: