Place Richings Park Station code IVR DfT category E Number of platforms 4 Original company Great Western Railway | Grid reference TQ037799 Managed by Great Western Railway 2011/12 0.156 million | |
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Address Colne Valley Regional Park, Iver SL0 9AT, United Kingdom Similar Taplow railway station, West Drayton railway st, Langley railway station, Southall railway station, Hanwell railway station | ||
Iver railway station is a railway station situated in the village of Richings Park, near Iver, Buckinghamshire, England. It is the first station on the Great Western Main Line located outside Greater London.
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History
The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway which opened on 4 June 1838, however no station was provided at Iver until 1924; Iver station opened on 1 December that year.
This section of line is also where the first trials of the locomotive North Star were held, commemorated by a public house in nearby Thorney.
William Stallybrass, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, died in a railway accident when he stepped out of a moving train near the station in 1948. He was almost blind at the time.
Services
The station is served by local services operated by Great Western Railway between Paddington and Reading & Oxford. These call every half-hour on weekdays & Saturdays. There is no Sunday service.
Future
The line through Iver is due to be electrified for the new Crossrail service starting in 2018 which provide Iver with cross-London services. This will mean oyster cards can be used at Iver from 2018 and all stations to Reading will be able to use oyster cards from 2018.
The station is also potentially the site of a new Heathrow Hub railway station which would see the station greatly expanded with 12 platforms and serving as the main interchange between Heathrow Airport, Crossrail, the Great Western Main Line and High Speed 2.