Virginia Water railway station

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Virginia Water
Trains from Weybridge (left) and Reading (right) await departure for London Waterloo at Virginia Water
Location
Place Virginia Water
Local authority Runnymede
Operations
Station code VIR
Managed by South West Trains
Platforms in use 4
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 * 0.396 million
2005/06 * 0.426 million
History
Key dates Opened 4 June 1856
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Virginia Water from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Virginia Water railway station serves the village of Virginia Water, in Surrey, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South West Trains.

It is a junction station on the Waterloo to Reading Line; the Chertsey Branch to Weybridge leaves the main line here. The platforms are located on the junction: as can be seen from the photograph (taken facing southwards), trains from Weybridge and to Reading use either side of a V-shaped platform which provides cross-platform interchange; the junction of the tracks is at the London end of the station.

[edit] History

The line from Staines to Ascot, including this station, was opened by the London and South Western Railway on 4 June 1856; the section to Weybridge opened on 1 October 1866. Formerly a chord south of the station connected the Chertsey and Reading lines.

The station received a new station building in 1973, similarly treated to Wokingham and Sunningdale, from prefabricated concrete. The building is seen to the right of the photograph.

[edit] Services

On Monday to Saturday, there are:

On Sundays, there is 1tph to Woking rather than 2tph to Weybridge.

[edit] External links

  Preceding station     National Rail     Following station  
Egham   South West Trains
Waterloo to Reading
  Sunningdale
or Longcross
  South West Trains
Waterloo to Chertsey via Hounslow
  Chertsey