Petersfield railway station

Petersfield
Location
Place	Petersfield
Local authority	East Hampshire
Grid reference	SU743235
Operations
Station code	PTR
Managed by	South West Trains
Number of platforms	2 (was 4)
DfT category	C2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	1.006 million
2005/06	1.041 million
2006/07	1.096 million
2007/08	1.195 million
2008/09	1.233 million
2009/10	1.221 million
2010/11	1.294 million
2011/12	1.300 million
2012/13	1.299 million
2013/14	1.312 million
2014/15	1.361 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1859 (1859)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Petersfield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Petersfield railway station is a railway station serving the market town of Petersfield, Hampshire, England. It is located on the Portsmouth Direct Line which runs between London (London Waterloo) and Portsmouth (Portsmouth Harbour railway station).

The station has two tracks, and two platforms, although in the past had a third platform branching into the coal yard situated adjacent to the station and a fourth platform on the north side of the level crossing serving the branch to Midhurst closed in 1955. The main buildings date back to the opening of the line in 1859 and are of a "town" type, larger than other wayside stations on the route but identical to Godalming.

There used to be a halt between Petersfield and Rowlands Castle, to the south of Buriton Tunnel, called Woodcroft. It was built to serve the local naval establishment. Because of its naval nature it wasn't featured on many maps, some maps however did mark it by a little tab but without a name.

Services

Its service has improved steadily over the years and it now normally enjoys three trains per hour in each direction, of which two are expresses between Waterloo and Portsmouth.

A new bus service started in 2007 linking the town of Waterlooville with the station at Petersfield, running via Horndean, to give that area access to the rail network. This bus service stopped in mid-December 2009.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Liss		South West Trains Portsmouth Direct Line (stopping services)		Rowlands Castle
Haslemere		South West Trains Portsmouth Direct Line		Havant
	Historical railways
Liss Line and station open		Southern Railway Portsmouth Direct Line		Woodcroft Halt Line open, station closed
	Disused railways
Terminus		Midhurst Railways		Rogate

Gallery

• Petersfield Station 2.jpeg

  Taken from Tilmore Bridge

• Petersfield railway station - Taken from Wilmotts.jpg

  Taken from "Wilmotts"

• Petersfield railway station - Up platform.jpg

  Up platform

• Petersfield railway station - London bound train.jpg

  London bound train

• Petersfield railway station - Bridge in Station Road.jpg

  Bridge in Station Road

• Petersfield railway station - Signal box.jpg

  Signal box

• Petersfield railway station - Looking north.jpg

  Looking north

• Petersfield railway station, England.jpg

  Petersfield in 1971.

• Petersfield Auto-train from Pulborough, on the Last Day of the branch geograph-2662858-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg

  Auto-train from Pulborough on the Last Day of the branch in 1955

External links

• Train times and station information for Petersfield railway station from National Rail