Cholsey railway station

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Cholsey

Station buildings from street level

Location

Place

Cholsey

Local authority

South Oxfordshire

Operations

Station code

CHO

Managed by

First Great Western

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.210 million

2005/06 *

0.184 million

History

1 June 1840

Line opens

29 February 1892

Station opens as Cholsey and Moulsford

c.1950

Renamed Cholsey

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cholsey from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Platform level; to the left is the terminus of the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway; to right are the relief line platforms; out of sight behind the fence to the far right are the fast line platforms.

Looking the other way, to the junction with the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway.

Cholsey railway station, previously known as Cholsey and Moulsford railway station, is a railway station located in the village of Cholsey in Oxfordshire in England. The station is principally served by services operated by First Great Western, but also acts as junction terminus for heritage railway services on the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway.

1 Services
2 Layout
- 2.1 Platforms
3 History
- 3.1 Routes
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Services

Cholsey station is served by stopping services run by First Great Western between Reading and Oxford. Most of these services start or continue as semi-fast services between Reading and London Paddington, and run twice an hour throughout most of the day, but only hourly on Sundays. Typical journey times are approximately 20 minutes to Reading and Oxford, and just over 1 hour to Paddington.^[1]

Services on the volunteer run Cholsey and Wallingford railway run intermittently, usually on weekends and bank holidays.

[edit] Layout

The station frontage building is on two levels, with station offices in the lower (street) level and the London bound waiting room on the upper (platform) level. There are two small car parks, one at street level in front of the station building, the other at platform level to the south of the station.

[edit] Platforms

The station has platforms on each of the fast and relief (slow) lines, although the platforms on the fast lines see little use. It also has a terminal platform used by trains on the Wallingford line. The platforms are located on an embankment, with access to street level by stairs and a pedestrian underpass.

Platform 1 – is only used when the relief lines are out of service. It is for Westbound First Great Western services during engineering and maintenance work.
Platform 2 – is only used when the relief lines are out of service. It is for Eastbound First Great Western services during engineering and maintenance work.
Platform 3 – for Westbound First Great Western local services to Oxford and beyond.
Platform 4 – for Eastbound First Great Western local services to Reading and London.
Platform 5 – is a west-facing bay platform currently used for Cholsey and Wallingford Railway heritage services to Wallingford.

Please note that high-speed passenger and freight trains pass through platform 1 - 4 with little or no warning. As with any station, it is advised to keep a sensible distance from the platform edge, particularly on platforms 1 and 2 as trains can pass through at speeds of up to 125mph.

[edit] History

The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway, which opened in 1841. The original station, known as Wallingford Road, was situated several hundred yards further up the main-line in the direction of Goring & Streatley, near the point where the A329 road crosses the line. Some of the original station buildings can still be seen at this point The current station was constructed at the junction for a branch line, opened in 1866 and serving the town of Wallingford. Although that branch closed to passenger trains in 1959 and to freight trains in 1981, part of it is now preserved as the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway.

[edit] Routes

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station
Goring & Streatley		First Great Western Commuter services Great Western Main Line	Didcot Parkway
	Heritage railways
Terminus		Cholsey and Wallingford Railway Occasional service	Wallingford
Disused Railways
Didcot		Great Western Railway Great Western Main Line	Moulsford
Terminus		British Rail Western Region Wallingford Branch Line	Wallingford