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Wokingham railway station serves the market town of Wokingham in Berkshire, England. It is 62 miles 8 chains (62.10 mi; 99.9 km) down the line from London Charing Cross via Redhill. [ 1 ] It is at the junction of the Waterloo–Reading line with the North Downs Line .
Share capital was to be £300,000, for a double track line 18 miles long from Staines to Wokingham, with a branch five miles long through Chobham to Woking. At Wokingham the line would connect to the Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway; running powers would get trains to Reading. [1] The SW&WJR opened from Staines to Ascot on 4 June 1856.
A new development for the station environment, known as Winnersh Triangle Parkway, has been proposed by Wokingham Borough Council. This will involve the addition of a parking deck over the existing Park and Ride car park that will add an extra 130 parking spaces, a revamp of the ticket office and waiting areas inside the station building, and ...
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A goods yard was constructed at the station in 1859-60. [97] Wokingham Junction was created in 1856, when the line from Ascot opened. A Class 166 heads towards Guildford after departing from Wokingham station. Several connections between the North Downs Line and other lines were created in the second half of the 19th century.
The new station began broadcasting from Reading on Friday 9 July 2010, leading to the closure of studios in Oxford. [ 2 ] The stations still carried local advertising and travel bulletins, and accordingly were sub-branded as "Heart Thames Valley for Oxfordshire" and "Heart Thames Valley for Berkshire and NW Hampshire".
The 39th Street station will shut down at 7:30 p.m. on Friday ahead of the next scheduled weekend closure. A bus service will run between the 29th Street and 48th Street stations.