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Newbury station was opened on 21 December 1847 [2] as part of the Berks and Hants Railway from Reading to Hungerford.Newbury was an important junction on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway (DN&SR), the first section of which opened between Didcot and Newbury in 1881.
Newbury Racecourse railway station serves the East Fields area of the town of Newbury, Berkshire, England, and the adjacent Newbury Racecourse. It is 52 miles 31 chains (52.39 miles, 84.31 km) measured from London Paddington .
The Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway (DN&SR) was a cross-country railway running north–south between Didcot, Newbury and Winchester.Its promoters intended an independent route to Southampton and envisaged heavy traffic from the Midlands and North of England to the port, but they ran out of funds to complete the line to Southampton.
The line passes through Berkshire countryside and local stations at Aldermaston, Midgham and Thatcham. Newbury race course lies alongside the line on the left and has its own station a short distance east of the main Newbury railway station, where the town centre is close by on the right of the line. The station has a bay platform on the right ...
The Jockey Club changed its mind and granted a licence. In 1904 the Newbury Racecourse Company was founded, purchased the land and constructed the buildings and stables on the current site. The Great Western Railway Company built a station near the course. Many of the opening day's crowd of 15,000 would have travelled by train. [3]
The Lambourn Valley Railway ran from Newbury GWR station. At the time of construction the main line there was an east–west double track, and the station had two platforms. The Didcot Newbury and Southampton line (DNS) ran generally north to south: southbound DNS trains joined the GWR line at Greenham Junction (later Newbury East Junction) and ...
In September 1956, Newbury West Fields Halt was removed from the rail timetables but continued to carry passengers, small goods, and milk. The station closed on 4 February 1957, [3] the first on the line to do so. [2] The station was demolished after closure and the site of the railway formation is now covered by housing development.
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