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Newbury
Location
Place	Newbury
Local authority	West Berkshire
Operations
Managed by	First Great Western
Platforms in use	3
Annual Passenger Usage
2004/05 **	1.351 million
History
Key dates	Opened December 1847
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Newbury railway station is a railway station in the centre of the town of Newbury in the county of Berkshire in England. It was opened on December 21, 1847^[1] by the Great Western Railway company. The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western from Reading to Newbury and Great Bedwyn, and by inter-city trains operated by First Great Western from London Paddington to the West Country.

The station was once a junction, with the north-south Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway, and with the Lambourn Valley Railway which ran from the station to the north east. Both of these lines were closed in the 1960s. The current station has two through platforms, both on loops off the main line, leaving two through tracks running through the middle of the station. There is also a bay platform on the north east side for short trains to and from Reading. The two former bay platforms at the west end of the station have been trackless for many years, and lately filled in to provide car parking. The one on the north side served the Lambourn branch and the one on the south side was used for Southampton trains and for Bedwyn trains laying over while waiting for a down main line train to call (the train would then provide connections off the main line train for stations to Bedwyn).

In semaphore signalling days, the station had a signal box at each end of the station, and it was possible to hear the bells in these boxes ringing from a point mid-way along the main platforms. There was a goods yard to the east of the station, and access to this yard was possible by reversing from the down main platform across the main lines into the yard. The station is now signalled with colour lights controlled from Reading, and the track layout has been simplified. It is now common practice for both Up and Down trains to call at the north side (Up platform), leaving the Down side platform for local services to Bedwyn. This means that passengers alighting from a main line service wishing to connect with a down local train must cross the footbridge.

There is a manned ticket office on the north side (up platform).

• Train times and station information for Newbury railway station from National Rail
• Street map and aerial photo of Newbury railway station from Multimap.com

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