Bracknell railway station

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Bracknell

Location

Place

Bracknell

Local authority

Bracknell Forest

Operations

Station code

BCE

Managed by

South West Trains

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

1.684 million

2005/06 *

1.735 million

History

Key dates

Opened 9 July 1856

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bracknell from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Bracknell railway station is a railway station serving the town of Bracknell in Berkshire, England. The station, and all trains calling there, are operated by South West Trains. It is on the London Waterloo-Reading line.

The station was opened by the Staines and Wokingham Railway in 1856, and was taken over by the London and South Western Railway in 1878. Following re-development in 1975, the station is situated directly underneath the Bracknell Quintiles building. The station's goods sidings closed in 1969^[1].

1 Services
2 Services Nearby
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Services

Trains operate between London Waterloo and Reading every 30 minutes, 7 days a week. On weekdays there are extra afternoon peak time trains from Reading which terminate at Ascot.

[edit] Services Nearby

Bracknell train station is situated nearby to the bus station which is only about a minutes walk from the station. There is also a taxi rank outside the station and a place for vehicles to stop and pick up passengers getting off the trains arriving at the station.