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Woodhay railway station

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Place
  
East Woodhay

Grid reference
  
SU443634

4 May 1885
  
Opened

Area
  
Basingstoke and Deane

Post-grouping
  
Great Western Railway

Platforms in use
  
2

Pre-grouping
  
Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway

Original company
  
Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway

Similar
  
King's Worthy railway st, Sutton Scotney railway st, Burghclere railway station, Highclere railway station, Farringdon Halt railway st

Woodhay railway station was a station on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway in England. It was located a about five miles south of the junction with the Great Western Railway west of Newbury railway station. Woodhay station served the villages of Enborne and Enborne Row in Berkshire and Broad Laying (Woolton Hill) in the parish of East Woodhay, Hampshire.

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Facilities

Like most country stations on the line it originally consisted of two platforms, the southbound platform on the passing loop. Since the station was built on a bank it was not possible to construct strong foundations for a brick-built station building. Hence this was the only station on the line with a wooden station building located on the southbound platform. Two sidings and a headshunt were built to the south of the station for goods. These were primarily used for horses and wood cut from nearby pine forests.

Accidents and incidents

  • In December 1957, a freight train overran signals and was derailed by trap points.
  • Closure

    Both the station and the railway closed in the 1960s.

    Typical timetable

    Page 45 of the 1910 Bradshaw's railway timetable gives the train times:

    Woodhay - Newbury
  • 08:22 - 08:29
  • 08:53 - 09:00
  • 11:52 - 11:59
  • 13:12 - 13:19
  • 15:45 - 15:53
  • 17:45 - 17:53
  • 18:53 - 19:00
  • Newbury - Woodhay
  • 07:48 - 07:57
  • 08:59 - 09:07
  • 11:42 - 11:53
  • 13:55 - 14:03
  • 16:15 - 16:25
  • 19:00 - 19:08
  • 20:47 - 20:55
  • References

    Woodhay railway station Wikipedia