Goring & Streatley railway station

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Goring & Streatley
Goring & Streatley railway station, with a Virgin Voyager train passing on the down relief line.
Location
Place	Goring-on-Thames
Local authority	South Oxfordshire
Operations
Station code	GOR
Managed by	First Great Western
Platforms in use	4
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	0.358 million
2005/06 *	0.343 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1841
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Goring & Streatley from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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The station from the footbridge; the relief lines are to the right and the fast lines to the left.

The station from the footbridge; looking the other way

Goring & Streatley railway station is a railway station serving the twin villages of Goring-on-Thames and Streatley, on the boundary between the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire in England. The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western.

[edit] History

The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway, which opened in 1841.

[edit] Description

The station is located in the village of Goring-on-Thames, some five minutes walk from Goring and Streatley Bridge which connects the village with its Berkshire sister, Streatley across the River Thames. The station is adjacent to and to the east of the village centre.

The station has platforms on each of the fast and relief (slow) lines, although the platforms on the fast lines see little use. The station frontage building is to the east of the station, alongside the London bound relief platform, and there is a large car park, to the south of the station building. There are also two pedestrian entrances directly onto the western, down fast platform, one of which links to Goring village centre. Access between the platforms is via steps and a footbridge.

[edit] Services

Goring & Streatley station is served by stopping services run by First Great Western between Reading and Oxford.

The typical off-peak service from the station is:

• 2 trains per hour to Reading and eventually on to London Paddington
• 2 trains per hour to Oxford

Most of these services start or continue as semi-fast services between Reading and London Paddington, there are also additional services during morning peek hours on weekdays. Saturday services run half hourly, but Sunday services are only hourly.

Typical journey times are approximately 15 minutes to Reading, 20 minutes to Oxford, and just over one hour to Paddington.^[1]

Although the service is frequent throughout the day, reliability is lower than the national average. Currently only 74.9% of trains are running on time on the First Great Western Thames Valley route that serves Goring & Streatley station, with peek period reliability especially badly hit.^[2]

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Train Times. First Great Western. Retrieved on April 12, 2007.
2. ^ First Great Western Performance results 2008

[edit] Sources

• 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, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 

• Jowett, Alan (1989). Jowett's railway atlas of Great Britain and Ireland : from pre-grouping to the present day, 1st, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 

Coordinates: 51°31′19.20″N, 1°08′0.60″W

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