Place Hermitage Grid reference SU510736 4 August 1942 Closed Platforms in use 2 | Area West Berkshire 11 September 1933 Opened Original company Great Western Railway | |
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Western Region of British Railways Similar Hampstead Norris railway st, Stockcross and Bagnor H, Great Shefford railway st, Boxford railway station, Eastbury Halt railway st | ||
Pinewood Halt railway station was a station on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway in England. It served the northern parts of Hermitage and Oare both in Berkshire. The halt was opened on 11 September 1933 in the hope of increasing passenger traffic from people unwilling to walk the long distance to the next station. It closed in 1962.
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Facilities
There was a single platform and shelter but an additional platform, also with a shelter, was later built with the addition of a passing loop. The station itself had no goods facilities, but a couple of sidings were built to the north east of the station to serve the brickworks near the site.
The site today
Evidence of the trackwork for the brickworks sidings can still be seen, although these had been built privately and they predated the halt.