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Parkstone railway station

 
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Parkstone
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Location
Place Parkstone
Local authority Poole
Operations
Station code PKS
Managed by South West Trains
Platforms in use 2
Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 * 129,599
2005/06 * 127,121
2006/07 * 139,383
2007/08 * 150,454
History
Pre-grouping London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping Southern Railway
15 June 1874 Opened
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Parkstone from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

Parkstone railway station is a railway station serving the Parkstone area of Poole in Dorset. The platform sign used to say "Parkstone (for Sandbanks)".

The station is operated by South West Trains and is served by both the Weymouth express and the Poole stopping services.

The station is able to accommodate trains of up to 5 coaches, longer trains only open the doors in the first 5 or 4 coaches depending on the type of unit operating the service.

Until 1967 a branch goods line ran from here to the George Jennings South Western Pottery. The line extended from the Pottery to Salterns Pier, on the northern shores of Poole Harbour, until 1922.[1]

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays the station generally sees 2 trains per hour to Poole and London Waterloo and an hourly service to Weymouth.

External links

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Branksome   South West Trains
London-Weymouth express services
  Poole
Branksome   South West Trains
London-Poole stopping services
  Poole
Disused railways
Branksome   Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway
LSWR & Midland Railways
  Poole

Coordinates: 50°43′23″N 1°56′56″W / 50.723°N 1.949°W / 50.723; -1.949


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