Aldermaston railway station

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Aldermaston

The station from the footbridge, with a Network Turbo train of First Great Western passing through.

Location

Place

Aldermaston Wharf

Local authority

West Berkshire

Operations

Managed by

First Great Western

Platforms in use

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

39,027

2005/06 *

46,297

History

21 December 1847

Opened

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

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The station looking to the west, showing the footbridge and headshunt siding

Aldermaston railway station is a railway station named after the village of Aldermaston in the county of Berkshire in England. In fact the station is in the nearby settlement of Aldermaston Wharf and a good 2 miles north from Aldermaston village itself. It was opened on December 21, 1847 ^[1].

1 Description
2 Services
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Description

Aldermaston station lies between the A4 road and the settlement of Aldermaston Wharf. There are two flanking platforms on each side of the double track line. Each platform has its own independent road access and car park, together with a small shelter. The two platforms are also linked by a footbridge. The Newbury bound platform is flanked on its offside by a siding, used as a headshunt for access to a nearby freight facility.

[edit] Services

The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western from Reading to Newbury and Bedwyn. Trains run hourly in both directions on Mondays to Saturdays, but there is no Sunday service. Typical journey times are approximately 15 minutes to Reading and 16 minutes to Newbury. Passengers for London Paddington must normally change trains at Reading.^[2]