Place Bourne End Station code BNE DfT category E Number of platforms 2 Original company Wycombe Railway | Grid reference SU894872 Managed by Great Western Railway 2011/12 0.240 million | |
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Address Wooburn Green, Bourne End SL8 5QQ, United Kingdom Similar Marlow railway station, Cookham railway station, Maidenhead railway station, Furze Platt railway station, Gerrards Cross railway st | ||
Bourne end railway station 2
Bourne End railway station serves Bourne End in Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the Marlow Branch line between Maidenhead and Marlow, about 4.5 miles (7 km) north of Maidenhead.
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Services are provided by Great Western Railway. The ticket office is open on weekday and Saturday mornings. There is a customer car park south of the station. The station has two platforms.
Bourne end railway station
History
The station was originally named Marlow Road station. In 1874 Marlow Road station was renamed Bourne End to obviate confusion with the newly opened Marlow station.
The station was opened in 1854 as part of the Wycombe Railway Company line between Maidenhead Boyne Hill station and High Wycombe. To reach Bourne End, a wooden viaduct was built across Cockmarsh and a wooden bridge was built across the River Thames.
In 1873 a line linking Bourne End with Marlow was opened to the public, with 1700 tickets being sold in the first week. Originally the branch line was served by a third platform on the west side of the station.
The service on the branch line is known locally as the "Marlow Donkey", which is commemorated by a local pub of the same name, although the origin of the term is unclear.
Partial closure
British Rail closed the line between Bourne End and High Wycombe in May 1970 but trains are still run between Maidenhead and Marlow. There was local opposition to the creation of a community rail partnership because of fears that this would isolate the line from the main railway network.
Services
Bourne End is a terminus but effectively acts as a through station, with the driver having to change ends to continue to the next station. During peak hours service frequency is increased by having two trains work the line, each using Bourne End as the terminus: one runs Marlow – Bourne End and one Maidenhead – Bourne End, with passengers changing trains at Bourne End. Four trains per weekday operate between Bourne End and Paddington in the morning peak and coming back in the evening peak.
The basic daytime service runs hourly each way to Maidenhead & Marlow seven days a week, with the aforementioned additional peak extras operating Mon-Fri only.