Mortimer railway station
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| Mortimer railway station, viewed from the footbridge. | |||
| Location | |||
| Place | Stratfield Mortimer | ||
| Local authority | West Berkshire | ||
| Operations | |||
| Station code | MOR | ||
| Managed by | First Great Western | ||
| Platforms in use | 2 | ||
| Live departures and station information from National Rail | |||
| Annual Rail Passenger Usage | |||
| 2004/05 * | 0.183 million | ||
| 2005/06 * | 0.175 million | ||
| History | |||
| Key dates | Opened 1 November 1848 | ||
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |||
| * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Mortimer from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. | |||
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Mortimer railway station is a railway station in the village of Stratfield Mortimer in the county of Berkshire in England. The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western.
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[edit] Description
The brick-built single-storey station has a ticket office and waiting room (now closed) on the north (Reading-bound) side of the double track. There is a footbridge over to the south side with its very small brick shelter. The buildings were designed in the Italianate style by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1848 for the Great Western Railway and are listed Grade II*. The approval of the Duke of Wellington, who lived nearby at Stratfield Saye House, was required for the station's construction.[1] In much later years it was operated by the Southern Region of British Railways.
[edit] Services
The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western from Reading to Basingstoke. There are generally two trains per hour in each direction on weekdays and Saturdays, and a single train per hour on Sundays. Trains take some 11 minutes to reach Reading, and 13 minutes to reach Basingstoke.[2]
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Reading West | First Great Western Reading-Basingstoke |
Bramley (Hants) | ||
| From December 2008 | ||||
| Reading GreenPark | First Great Western Reading to Basingstoke Line |
Bramley (Hants) | ||
[edit] Trivia
- The station appears briefly in the 1974 Doctor Who serial Planet of the Spiders.
- The buildings were used as the basis for a model station produced by Tri-ang Railways.
[edit] References
- ^ Biddle, Gordon and Nock, O. S. (1983). The Railway Heritage of Britain. Michael Joseph. ISBN 0-7181-2355-7.
- ^ Train Times. First Great Western. Retrieved on April 12, 2007.
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