Twickenham railway station

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Twickenham
Location
Place	Twickenham
Local authority	Richmond upon Thames
Operations
Station code	TWI
Managed by	South West Trains
Platforms in use	3 (Numbers 3, 4, and 5)
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	3.106 million
2005/06 *	3.139 million
Transport for London
Zone	5
History
22 August 1848	Opened
28 March 1954	Resited 230m east
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Twickenham from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
UK Railways Portal

Twickenham railway station is in Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, and is in Travelcard Zone 5. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South West Trains.
The original station, built after the Gothic plan on the west side of the London Road, was opened by the London and Windsor Railway on 22 August 1848.^[1]
Preparatory work for rebuilding by the Southern Railway in its "Southern Odeon" style on the east of London Road was halted by the outbreak of the second World War, with most trackwork and the vertical edgings of the five planned through platforms in place. After the war some platforms were made level for Rugby watchers' trains which were hand-flagged through the embryonic station. It was not until 28 March 1954 that the present slight station was brought into use with three through tracks inconveniently having the two up lines on facing platform faces. The track at platform 1 is disconnected and like that of platform 2 stops at a causeway which allows Rugby spectators to reach platform 3 from the car park avoiding the station building.

Contents 1 Access 2 Services 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Access

For passengers who cannot use stairs, platform 3 may be reached across the causeway from the car park, a stairlift goes from the road-level footbridge to platforms 4 and 5.

[edit] Services

The typical off-peak service from the station is:

• 12tph (trains per hour) to London Waterloo, of which:
  • 8 run direct via Richmond and Clapham Junction
  • 2 run via Kingston and Wimbledon
  • 2 run via Hounslow
• 2tph to Reading
• 2tph to Windsor and Eton Riverside
  
  

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Richmond		South West Trains Waterloo to Reading		Feltham
		South West Trains Waterloo to Windsor		Whitton
St Margarets		South West Trains Hounslow Loop		Whitton
		South West Trains Kingston Loop		Strawberry Hill

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Twickenham railway station from National Rail

• Twickenham railway station is at coordinates 51°27′01″N 0°19′47″W / 51.4504, -0.3296 (Twickenham railway station)Coordinates: 51°27′01″N 0°19′47″W / 51.4504, -0.3296 (Twickenham railway station)

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