Pangbourne railway station

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Pangbourne

Station buildings from access road

Location

Place

Pangbourne

Local authority

West Berkshire

Operations

Managed by

First Great Western

Platforms in use

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.358 million

2005/06 *

0.354 million

History

Key dates

Opened 1841

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

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Platforms; note fast lines passing behind platform 1

Pangbourne railway station is a railway station serving the small town of Pangbourne in the county of Berkshire, and across the River Thames the village of Whitchurch-on-Thames, in Oxfordshire. The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western.

1 History
2 Description
3 Services
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway, which opened in 1841.

[edit] Description

Pangbourne station is located close to the village centre, with main station buildings on the opposite side of the railway to the village. It has two platforms, one on each of the relief (slow) lines, whilst the fast lines pass behind the station. The platforms are linked to each other and the station entrance, on the up relief platform, by a pedestrian underpass.

Originally the station also had platforms on the main (fast) lines and some signs of their previous existence are still visible adjacent to platform 1. A consequence of their removal is that when the relief lines are closed for engineering work, local stopping services cannot call at Pangbourne, and a replacement bus service is required.

[edit] Services

Pangbourne 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 10 minutes to Reading, 30 minutes to Oxford, and one hour to Paddington. As a result, a faster journey to London can often be achieved by means of a change at Reading.^[1]