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A 1909 Railway Clearing House map showing (left) lines in the area of Wokingham. 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.
The station uses LED-based live departure boards and audio announcements for reporting arrivals and delays to commuters. The station has neither a ticket office nor a ticket machine; tickets therefore have to be purchased on a train or on-line.
To support the eastward expansion of Bracknell in the 1980s, British Rail opened the station at Martins Heron on 3 October 1988. [1] This was the eighth new station opened by Network SouthEast in two years, and cost £500,000, which was jointly met by BR and Berkshire County Council.
The town of Kingston upon Thames, at the time known simply as Kingston, was steadily growing and commercially active before the arrival of the railway. [4] When the main line was built, it passed 1.1 miles (1.8 km) south of the town, and a station was provided in the deep cutting there.
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Wokingham became a chapelry in the Middle Ages; its church of All Saints was built in the 14th century, probably on the site of a 12th-century chapel. [12] The chapelry of Wokingham was a separate civil parish from an early date, but remained part the ecclesiastical parish of Sonning until 1812. [11] The town was also an ancient borough.
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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.