Maidenhead railway station
Maidenhead | |
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Location | |
Place | Maidenhead |
Local authority | Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead |
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Grid reference | SU886807 |
Operations | |
Station code | MAI |
Managed by | Great Western Railway |
Number of platforms | 5 |
DfT category | C1 |
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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Annual rail passenger usage* | |
2002/03 | 3.292 million |
2004/05 | 3.272 million |
2005/06 | 3.380 million |
2006/07 | 3.609 million |
2007/08 | 3.682 million |
2008/09 | 3.683 million |
2009/10 | 3.600 million |
2010/11 | 3.823 million |
2011/12 | 3.964 million |
2012/13 | 4.125 million |
2013/14 | 4.203 million |
History | |
Key dates | Opened 1 November 1871 |
Original company | Great Western Railway |
Pre-grouping | GWR |
Post-grouping | GWR |
National Rail – UK railway stations | |
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Maidenhead from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
UK Railways portal |
Maidenhead railway station serves the town of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. It is served by local services operated by Great Western Railway from London Paddington to Reading, and is also the junction for the Marlow Branch Line. It has five platforms which are accessed through ticket barriers at both entrances to the station. The Marlow line platform has an overall roof. The ticket barriers also stop the station being used as a walk through route.
History
The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway, which opened as far as Reading in 1840. The original Maidenhead Station lay east of the Thames, not far from the present Taplow station. This was the line's first terminus, pending the completion of the Sounding Arch (Maidenhead Railway Bridge) bridge over the river. In 1854, the Wycombe Railway Company built a line from Maidenhead to High Wycombe, with a station on Castle Hill, at first called "Maidenhead (Wycombe Branch)", later renamed "Maidenhead Boyne Hill". However, there was no station on the present site until 1871, when local contractor William Woodbridge built it. Originally, it was called "Maidenhead Junction", but eventually it came to replace the Boyn Hill station as well as the original station on the Maidenhead Riverside.[1]
In 2008 the station underwent major renovation works[2] and in 2010 a statue of Nicholas Winton was installed on one of the platforms.
Services
As well as regular services to London Paddington, trains run to Reading, Oxford and Marlow.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Twyford or Reading | Great Western Railway Great Western Main Line |
Taplow or Slough | ||
Terminus | Great Western Railway Marlow Branch Line |
Furze Platt | ||
Future Development | ||||
Preceding station | Crossrail | Following station | ||
towards Reading
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Crossrail Elizabeth Line |
towards Abbey Wood or Shenfield
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Crossrail
Maidenhead was initially the planned western terminus of Crossrail Line 1 before an announcement was made in 2014 to move the terminus to Reading.[3] The station will undergo significant modification, including the replacement of the existing passenger waiting facilities, a new ticket hall, lifts, a new platform for Marlow branch line services, the introduction of overhead line equipment and the construction of new stabling and turnback facilities to the west of the station.[4] Following a strong local campaign to extend Crossrail to a terminus at Reading, services will now be extended to Reading, with Twyford added.
Statue
In 2010 a statue was erected to honour the man dubbed the "British Schindler" for his work saving Jewish children from Nazi invasion. Sir Nicholas Winton was 29 when he smuggled 669 boys and girls, destined for concentration camps, out of Czechoslovakia in 1939. The statue, on platform three, depicts Winton sitting on a bench reading his famous scrapbook, which contained lists of all the children he helped to save. [5]
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