Andover railway station

Andover

Andover station exterior

Location

Place

Andover

Local authority

Test Valley

Operations

Station code

ADV

Managed by

South West Trains

Number of platforms

Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail Enquiries

Annual rail passenger usage

2004/05 *

0.982 million

2005/06 *

0.991 million

2006/07 *

1.015 million

2007/08 *

1.041 million

2008/09 *

1.075 million

2009/10 *

1.031 million

History

3 July 1854

Station opened as Andover

6 March 1865

Station renamed Andover Junction

7 November 1964

Station renamed Andover

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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Andover from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

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Andover station serves the town of Andover, Hampshire UK. The station is served and operated by South West Trains. The station is 107 km (66½ miles) south west of London Waterloo on the West of England Main Line (London Waterloo-Exeter).

According to the Office of Rail Regulation statistics on rail trends for the year 2005, 982,255 exits and entries were made at Andover rail station, making it the 14th most used rail station in the county of Hampshire (including the unitary authority areas of Portsmouth City Council and Southampton City Council).

1 History
2 Motive Power Depots
3 Services
4 Future
5 References

History

The station was opened on 3 July 1854 and was previously known as Andover Junction, as it stood at the junction of the Exeter-London line and the now-defunct Midland and South Western Junction Railway running between Cheltenham, Swindon, Andover and Southampton Terminus. Andover had a second station, Andover Town, to the south of the junction station on the line to Redbridge that was often called the Sprat and Winkle Line.

Opened by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR), it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Motive Power Depots

The LSWR opened a small locomotive depot a short distance past the junction in 1854, which was damaged in 1856 by a locomotive boiler explosion. The Swindon Marlborough and Andover Railway (SM&AR) also built a depot next to the station in 1882.^[1] The LSWR depot was destroyed by fire in 1896 and was replaced by a larger depot next to the SM&AR shed in 1903. The SM&AR was closed by the Western Region of British Railways in 1958 and demolished soon afterwards. The LSWR depot was in the Southern Region and survived until June 1962.

Services

The typical South West Trains hourly off-peak service pattern on the West of England Main Line at Andover comprises two services in each direction. Eastbound one stops at stations to Basingstoke then runs fast to London, the other runs fast to Basingstoke on to Waterloo. Westbound one service calls at stations to Salisbury where it terminates, the other runs fast to Salisbury then continues to Exeter St Davids.

Future

The new open-access operator Go! Cooperative has proposed operating a light rail service from Andover using the branch line to Ludgershall.

References

^ Griffiths, Roger; Smith, Paul (1999). The directory of British engine sheds: 1. Oxford: OPC. p. 48.

Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
Station on navigable O.S. map. Station is northerly one near hospital.