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This is for reversing trains in times of disruption and during the Reading station upgrade. In 1976 the busy level crossing adjacent to the station was modernised with lifting barriers. In February 2024 Network Rail closed the signal box as part of a £375 billion resignalling scheme of both Feltham PSB (Power Signal Box) and Wokingham SB ...
Following the closure of the Teesside Steelworks in 2015, Northern Rail services on the Tees Valley Line continued to serve the station, with two services operating in each direction on weekdays and Saturday. [16] These services were withdrawn on 14 December 2019. [17] In 2017–18, it was the least-used station in Britain, serving just 40 ...
The list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the year of closure if known. Stations reopened as heritage railways continue to be included in this list and some have been linked. Stations listed are those being available to the public thus excluding some private unadvertised stations, military use, railway staff only use or for other ...
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 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.
In the current timetable, there are two trains per hour between Waterloo and Reading, every day of the week; the Reading service only calls at major stations Clapham Junction, Richmond, Twickenham, Feltham (with a short bus link to Heathrow Airport), Staines and then all stations to Reading.
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.
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 ...