Alton railway station
Alton South Western Railway | |
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| Platforms | 3 (2 National Rail, 1 Watercress Line) |
| Other information | |
| Station code | AON |
| Classification | DfT category C2 |
| Key dates | |
| 28 July 1852 | Station opens |
| 2 October 1865 | Station moves to adjacent site |
| February 1973 | National Rail services west of Alton curtailed |
| 25 May 1985 | Watercress Line begins heritage services west of Alton |
| Passengers | |
| 2018/19 |  0.711 million |
| 2019/20 |  0.679 million |
| 2020/21 | 0.133 million |
| 2021/22 | 0.387 million |
| 2022/23 | 0.496 million |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
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Alton railway station is a
Services operate along the Alton Line to Brookwood and join the South West Main Line towards London Waterloo. The line was single-tracked as far as Farnham by British Rail in the early 1980s.
Platforms
There are three platforms in use.
History
The first station opened by the
When Sectorisation was introduced in 1986, the station was served by Network SouthEast, until the privatisation of British Rail in 1997.
Location
Alton station is located in the local government district of East Hampshire.
The station is nowhere near
Local residents, who have encountered many people trying to find Alton Towers, have put up posters at the station containing directions from the station to the resort by train, with a journey time of approximately 4 hours and 46 minutes.[2]
Services
Monday to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service to London Waterloo and an hourly service on Sundays, increasing to half-hourly from approximately 1330.
Services are usually operated by Class 450 Desiro units, although the Class 444 & Class 458 is also sometimes used.
Notes
- ^ Body, p.33
- ^ "Burton Mail: Alton Towers visitors ending up almost 200 miles away in Hampshire". Archived from the original on 21 October 2015.
References
- Body, G. (1984), PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Southern Region, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Cambridge. ISBN 0-85059-664-5
- OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. OCLC 228266687.
External links
- Map sources for Alton railway station
- Train times and station information for Alton railway station from National Rail
- Station on navigable O.S. map
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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Bentley
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Alton Line
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Terminus | ||
 Heritage railways
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| Terminus | Mid Hants Railway (Watercress Line) | Medstead & Four Marks | ||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Treloar's Hospital Platform Line and station closed |
London and South Western Railway Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway |
Terminus | ||
| Terminus | British Rail Southern Region Meon Valley Railway |
Farringdon Platform
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