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Maidenhead
File:Maidenhead railway station platforms 2006.jpg
Location
PlaceMaidenhead
Local authorityWindsor and Maidenhead
CoordinatesTemplate:Coord/display/inline,title
Grid referenceTemplate:Gbmapscaled
Operations
Station codeMAI
Managed byFirst Great Western
Platforms in use5
Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *  3.272 million
2005/06 *File:Increase2.svg 3.380 million
2006/07 *File:Increase2.svg 3.609 million
2007/08 *File:Increase2.svg 3.682 million
2008/09 *File:Increase2.svg 3.683 million
History
Opened 1 November 1871 (1 November 1871)
History
Original companyGreat Western Railway
Pre-groupingGWR
Post-groupingGWR
National Rail - UK railway stations
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Maidenhead from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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File:Maidenhead map 1945.jpg

A 1945 Ordnance Survey of Maidenhead showing the location of the station

File:Maidenhead railway station entrance 2006.jpg

Maidenhead railway station entrance

Maidenhead railway station serves the town of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. It is served by local services operated by First Great Western from Paddington to Reading Central, and is also the junction for the Marlow Branch Line. It has five platforms which are accessed through ticket barriers at both entrances to the station. The Marlow line platform has an overall roof. The ticket barriers also stop the station being used as a walk through route.

History[]

The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway, which opened as far as Reading in 1840. The original Maidenhead Station lay east of the Thames, not far from the present Taplow station. This was the line's first terminus, pending the completion of the Sounding Arch (Maidenhead Railway Bridge) bridge over the river. In 1854, the Wycombe Railway Company built a line from Wycombe to Maidenhead, with a station on Castle Hill, at first called "Maidenhead (Wycombe Branch)", later renamed "Maidenhead Boyne Hill". However, there was no station on the present site until 1871, when a local contractor called William Woodbridge built it. Originally, it was called "Maidenhead Junction", but eventually it came to replace the Boyn Hill station as well as the original station on the Maidenhead Riverside.includeonly>[1] In 2008 the station underwent major renovation works.

Services[]

As well as regular services to London Paddington, trains run to Reading, Oxford and Marlow.

Preceding station National Rail logo.svg National Rail Following station
Twyford   First Great Western
Great Western Main Line
  Taplow
Terminus   First Great Western
Marlow Branch Line
  Furze Platt
    Future Development    
Terminus {{{{{system}}} lines|{{{line}}}}} Terminus
Terminus Crossrail
Line 1
towards [[Template:S-line/LCR right/LCR railway station|Template:S-line/LCR right/LCR]]

Crossrail[]

Maidenhead is the planned western terminus of Crossrail Line 1. The station will undergo significant modification, including the replacement of the existing passenger waiting facilities, a new ticket hall, lifts, a new platform for Marlow branch line services, the introduction of overhead line equipment and the construction of new stabling and turnback facilities to the west of the station[citation needed]. There is, however, a strong local campaign to extend Crossrail to a terminus at Reading Central.

Notes[]

  1. Over 2001, para. 8.

References[]


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