Maidenhead railway station

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Maidenhead

Location

Place

Maidenhead

Local authority

Windsor and Maidenhead

Operations

Managed by

First Great Western

Platforms in use

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

3.272 million

2005/06 *

3.380 million

History

Key dates

Opened 1871

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

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A 1945 Ordnance Survey of Maidenhead showing the location of the station

Maidenhead railway station entrance

Maidenhead railway station is a railway station in the town of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western from London Paddington to Reading stations. Maidenhead is also the junction for the Marlow Branch Line. It has five platforms.

1 Services
2 History
3 Crossrail
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Services

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Taplow		First Great Western Great Western Main Line		Twyford
Terminus		First Great Western Marlow Branch Line		Furze Platt

[edit] History

The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway, which opened as far as Reading in 1840. The original Maidenhead Station lay east of the Thames, not far from the present Taplow railway station. This was the line's first terminus, pending the completion of the Sounding Arch (Maidenhead railway Bridge) bridge over the river. In 1854, the Wycombe Railway Company built a line from Wycombe to Maidenhead, with a station on Castle Hill called Boyn Hill. The bricked up arches which led to the platforms can still be seen. However, there was no station on the present site until 1871, when a local contractor called William Woodbridge built it. Originally, it was called "Maidenhead Junction", but eventually it came to replace the Boyne Hill station as well as the original station on the Riverside ^[1].

[edit] Crossrail

Maidenhead is the planned western terminus of Crossrail line one. The station will undergo significant modification, including the replacement of the existing passenger waiting facilities, a new ticket hall, lifts, a new platform for Marlow branch line services, the introduction of overhead line equipment and the construction of new stabling and turnback facilities to the west of the station^{[citation needed]}. There is, however, a strong local campaign to extend Crossrail to a terminus at Reading.

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