Burnham railway station
Burnham  | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Haymill, Slough, Berkshire |
| Local authority | Borough of Slough |
| Coordinates | 51°31′26″N 0°38′46″W / 51.524°N 0.646°WCoordinates: 51°31′26″N 0°38′46″W / 51.524°N 0.646°W |
| Grid reference | SU940813 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BNM |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |
 1.059 million |
| 2011/12 |
1.117 million |
| 2012/13 |
1.160 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.227 million |
| 2014/15 |
1.285 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Great Western Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| 1 July 1899 | Opened as Burnham Beeches |
| 2 April 1917 | Closed |
| 3 March 1919 | Reopened |
| 1 September 1930 | Renamed Burnham (Bucks) |
| 5 May 1975 | Renamed Burnham |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Burnham from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
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Burnham railway station is the railway station for Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, although it lies in Haymill, a ward of Slough, about half a mile to the south of Burnham proper. Originally in Buckinghamshire the station moved into the county of Berkshire when county boundaries were realigned in 1974.
The station is served by local services operated by Great Western Railway from Paddington to Reading stations. The station is on the Great Western Main Line, the original line of the Great Western Railway. From opening on 1 July 1899, the station was named Burnham Beeches, becoming Burnham (Bucks) from 1 September 1930 to 5 May 1975, and then purely Burnham,[1] although National Rail variously refers to the station as Burnham (Bucks) and Burnham (Berks). The station was closed as a First World War economy measure from 2 April 1917 to 3 March 1919.[1][2]
Location
The station is situated about half a mile south of Burnham Village and around a mile north of the village of Cippenham and is the closest station to Slough Trading Estate.[3]
Facilities
Burnham Railway Station has a fully staffed ticketing office which is open 7 days a week. There is also a new self-service ticket machine, which replaced one that thieves attempted to break into in 2007. This machine accepts cash, debit and credit cards.
The station has a waiting room which is open during ticket office opening hours. Seating is also available under canopies on each platform.
Car parking facilities are around 100 metres away, in a car park operated by APCOA. Parking permits are sold to ticket holders individually from the station, or season ticket holders may purchase tickets from APCOA. [4]
Services
Burnham Station is served by Great Western Railway Class 165 and Class 166 trains towards London Paddington and Reading.
Burnham has an island platform - platform 1 has services to Reading and platform 2 has services to London Paddington. The normal frequency of service are four trains an hour, two toward Paddington and two towards Reading approximately every 30 minutes. In the evenings & on Saturdays, trains continue through to/from Oxford.[5]
There are hourly services on Sundays, which do not call at Taplow. Unusually for a station on the Great Western Main Line, Burnham was built with platforms that serve only the relief lines, which makes it vulnerable to losing services when engineering work closes the relief lines and leaves trains only on the main lines. Consequently, the station is frequently served by a replacement bus service at night.
References
- 1 2 Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 49. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
- ↑ Mitchell, Victor E.; Smith, Keith (November 2000). Western Main Lines: Slough to Newbury. Midhurst: Middleton Press. map VI, photographs 14, 15, 16 and captions. ISBN 1-901706-56-7.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-29. Retrieved 2012-04-15.
- ↑ Car Parking Information from FGW Site
- ↑ GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 117
External links
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- Train times and station information for Burnham railway station from National Rail
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Taplow | Great Western Railway Great Western Main Line |
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| Future Development | ||||
| Preceding station |  Crossrail |
Following station | ||
towards Reading | Crossrail Elizabeth line | |||