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Woolston railway station
Railway station in Southampton, England
Woolston railway station is a grade II listed[1] station serving the suburb of Woolston in the city of Southampton, England. The station is operated by South Western Railway. Just past Woolston station the line rounds the River Itchen giving a view across the city of Southampton, including Southampton FC's ground.
Woolston  | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Woolston, Southampton England |
| Grid reference | SU439112 |
| Managed by | South Western Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | WLS |
| Classification | DfT category E |
| History | |
| Opened | 5 March 1866 |
| Original company | Southampton and Netley Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London and South Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
| Passengers | |
| 2018/19 |  0.148 million |
| 2019/20 | 0.137 million |
| 2020/21 | 37,128 |
| 2021/22 |  91,822 |
| 2022/23 | 0.105 million |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
The station was built in 1866 in an Italianate style typical of William Tite who designed other stations for the London & South Western Railway company.[2][3] A single track line was operated by the Southampton & Netley Railway to serve the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley, which station was also built in an Italianate style.[4]
The station, with a train waiting in it, was bombed during a raid on the Spitfire works at Woolston during the Second World War, and suffered damage.[5] The station's extensive goods yard and brick shed was closed in 1967.[6] In June 2010 the former Southern Railway concrete footbridge bridge at the west end of the station was replaced.
South Western Railway operate all off-peak services at Woolston using Class 450 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[7]
- 1 tph to Southampton Central
- 1 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea
The station is also served by a limited Southern service of three trains per day to Southampton Central, two to London Victoria and one to Brighton.
In June 2024, Southern will introduce a regular half-houly service to Brighton, which will increase the service to Southampton Central to 3 tph (although 2 of these will be non-stop).[8]
| Preceding station |  National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sholing | South Western Railway |
Bitterne | ||
| Southern West Coastway Line Limited Service | ||||
- Southampton City Council: Listed buildings in Southampton Archived 7 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 17 September 2007.
- Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1178812)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
- Gordon Biddle, Oswald Stevens Nock (1983). The railway heritage of Britain: 150 years of railway architecture and engineering. M. Joseph. p. 206.
- Netley Hospital and its Railways. J.R. Fairman. 1984. ISBN 0-946184-09-7. p30
- Edwin Webb, John B. Duncan (1990). Blitz Over Britain. Spellmount. p. 58.
- Edwin Course (1 January 1974). The railways of southern England: secondary and branch lines. Batsford. ISBN 9780713428353.
- Table 165 National Rail timetable, May 2020
- Train times and station information for Woolston railway station from National Rail