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Virginia Water station has four platforms. Platform 1 - Semi-fast trains to London Waterloo via Richmond. Platform 2 - Trains to Ascot, Reading and stations to Farnham in peak hours. Platform 3 - Stopping service to London Waterloo via Hounslow. Platform 4 - Trains to Weybridge, or Woking on Sunday.
As a result, Windsor now included Englefield Green and Virginia Water in the Surrey borough of Runnymede. The number of constituencies was increased from 8 to 9 with the creation of Earley and Woodley, which principally incorporated areas of Reading East and Wokingham (Earley and Shinfield) with small parts of Reading West and Maidenhead.
The district was formed on 1 April 1974 as Wokingham District, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Wokingham and Wokingham Rural District. It is governed by Wokingham Borough Council (formerly Wokingham District Council), which has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1998, following the abolition of ...
This gave Wokingham a direct route to London Waterloo. In 1933 the Southern Railway opened the current signal box. It controls part of the North Downs Line, part of the Waterloo route, and the level crossing. On 1 January 1939 the SR extended its Waterloo – Virginia Water electric service to Wokingham and Reading. [6]
The municipal borough of Wokingham was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, with the area merging with the surrounding Wokingham Rural District to become a new non-metropolitan district called Wokingham. District-level functions formerly performed by the borough council passed to the new Wokingham District Council. [18]
At Virginia Water, the Chertsey Branch Line provides another connection to the South West Main Line whilst at Ascot, the Ascot–Guildford line heads southwards towards Aldershot and Farnham. At Wokingham , the line joins the west end of the North Downs Line leading into Reading, to terminate in platforms 4, 5 and 6.
Wokingham & Emmbrook reverted to their original name of Wokingham Town. ... Virginia Water: 24 10 6 8 51 44 +7 36 6 ... Hillingdon Borough: 25 14 6 5 59 36 +23 48 7 ...
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