Goring & Streatley railway station
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Goring & Streatley railway station, with a Virgin Voyager train passing on the down relief line. | |
| Location | |
| Place | Goring-on-Thames |
| Local authority | District of South Oxfordshire |
| Grid reference | SU602806 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | GOR |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| DfT category | E |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2002/03 |
 0.355 million |
| 2004/05 |
 0.358 million |
| 2005/06 |
0.344 million |
| 2006/07 |
0.348 million |
| 2007/08 |
0.367 million |
| 2008/09 |
0.373 million |
| 2009/10 |
0.374 million |
| 2010/11 |
0.368 million |
| 2011/12 |
0.378 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.388 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.399 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1 June 1840 |
| Original company | Great Western Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| 1 June 1840 | GWR Reading to Steventon opened |
| 1 June 1840 | Opened as Goring |
| 9 November 1895 | Renamed Goring & Streatley |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Goring & Streatley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
| UK Railways portal | |
Goring & Streatley railway station is a railway station on the Great Western Main Line serving the twin villages of Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire and Streatley, Berkshire in England. The station is served by local services operated by Great Western Railway (GWR).
History
The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway, which opened on 1 June 1840.[1] Originally named Goring, it was renamed Goring & Streatley on 9 November 1895 to prevent confusion with Goring-By-Sea.[2]
Description
The station is in the village of Goring-on-Thames, some five minutes walk from Goring and Streatley Bridge which connects the village with the Berkshire village of Streatley, across the River Thames. The station is adjacent to and to the east of the village centre.
The station has platforms on each of the main and relief (slow) lines, although the platforms on the main lines see little use. The station frontage building is to the east of the station, alongside the London bound relief platform, and there is a large car park, to the south of the station building. There are also two pedestrian entrances directly onto the western, down fast platform, one of which links to Goring village centre. Access between the platforms is via steps and a footbridge. There is access to the fast line platform (London bound).
Services
Goring & Streatley station is served by stopping services run by GWR between Reading and Oxford.
The typical off-peak service from the station is:
- 2 trains per hour to Reading and London Paddington
- 2 trains per hour to Oxford
Most of these services start or continue as semi-fast services between Reading and London Paddington, there are also additional services during morning peak hours on weekdays. Saturday services run half-hourly, but Sunday services are only hourly.
Typical journey times are about 15 minutes to Reading, 20 minutes to Oxford, and just over an hour to Paddington.[3]
In 2008 only 74.9% of trains ran on time on GWR's Thames Valley route serving Goring & Streatley station, with peak period reliability especially badly affected.[4]
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Pangbourne | Great Western Railway Commuter services Great Western Main Line |
Cholsey | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Pangbourne Line and station open |
Great Western Railway Great Western Main Line |
Moulsford Line open, station closed | ||
References
Notes
- ↑ MacDermot, E.T. (1927). "Chapter IV Construction". History of the Great Western Railway 1 (1st ed.). Paddington: Great Western Railway. p. 102.
- ↑ Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (March 2002). "Figure 53". Reading to Didcot. Western Main Lines. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-901706-79-6.
- ↑ "Train Times". First Great Western. Retrieved 12 April 2007.
- ↑ First Great Western Performance results 2008
Sources
- Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
Coordinates: 51°31′19.20″N 1°08′0.60″W / 51.5220000°N 1.1335000°W
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