Winchfield railway station

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Winchfield

Winchfield railway station seen from the bridge

Location

Place

Winchfield

Local authority

Hart

Operations

Station code

WNF

Managed by

South West Trains

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.281 million

2005/06 *

0.286 million

History

Key dates

Opened 24 September 1838

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

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Winchfield railway station is located in the small village of Winchfield and serves Hartley Wintney and other surrounding villages in Hampshire, England. There are two platforms on the outer pair of tracks while the centre pair of tracks have no platforms and are used by fast services between London, the South Coast and the Westcountry.

Most services to and from this station terminate at either Basingstoke or London Waterloo and run every half hour during the weekday and every hour at the weekends.

[edit] History

The London and South Western Railway (then London and Southampton railway) built a line from London to Southampton via Basingstoke. The railway arrived from Woking on the 24th September 1838, and Winchfield station was opened as Shapley Heath as a temporary terminus. On the 10th June in the following year, the line was completed to Basingstoke and Shapley Heath became a through station. It was soon renamed as Winchfield after the village, but the precise date of this is unknown.

As with Hook and Farnborough Main, there is a wide gap between the platforms and their tracks. Originally an island platform stood in between them, but these have been removed. When the station was expanded so this platform could be built, one of the platforms was removed and rebuilt further away. Consequently, both platforms have different style canopies.