Pinewood Halt railway station

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Pinewood Halt
Pinewood Halt station (1967).JPG
The site of the station in 1967
General information
Location Hermitage, West Berkshire
England
Grid reference SU510736
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Great Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
11 September 1933Opened
4 August 1942Closed
8 March 1943Re-opened
10 September 1962Closed

Pinewood Halt railway station was a station on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway in England. It served the northern parts of Hermitage and Oare both in Berkshire. The halt was opened on 11 September 1933 in the hope of increasing passenger traffic. It closed in 1962.

Contents

Facilities

There was a single platform and shelter but an additional platform, also with a shelter, was later built with the addition of a passing loop. The station itself had no goods facilities, [1] but a couple of sidings were built to the north east of the station - accessed via the smaller arch in the picture - to serve the brickworks near the site.

The site today

Evidence of the trackwork for the brickworks sidings can still be seen, although these had been built privately and they predated the halt. [2]

Services

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Hampstead Norris   Great Western Railway
Didcot, Newbury and Southampton line
  Hermitage

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References

  1. Judge, C.W. (1984). An Historical Survey of the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway. Poole: Oxford Publishing Co. p. 43. ISBN   0-86093-149-8.
  2. Karau, P., Parsons, M. and Robertson, K. (1984) An illustrated history of the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway, Wild Swan Publications, ISBN   0-906867-04-5

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