Southampton Airport Parkway railway station
50°57′01″N 1°21′48″W / 50.9503°N 1.3634°W
Southampton Airport Parkway  | |||||
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 The station looking northwards in February 2012 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Eastleigh, Borough of Eastleigh England | ||||
| Grid reference | SU448170 | ||||
| Managed by | South Western Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | SOA | ||||
| Classification | DfT category C1 | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 30 October 1929 | Opened as Atlantic Park Hostel Halt | ||||
| Unknown | Closed | ||||
| 1 April 1966 | Reopened as Southampton Airport | ||||
| 29 September 1986 | Renamed Southampton Parkway for Southampton (Eastleigh) Airport | ||||
| 29 May 1994 | Renamed Southampton Airport Parkway | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  1.700 million | ||||
| 2019/20 |  1.593 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.146 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.233 million | ||||
| Interchange | 29,456 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 0.780 million | ||||
| Interchange | 74,861 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 1.079 million | ||||
| Interchange | 95,308 | ||||
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Southampton Airport Parkway is a railway station on the South West Main Line, located in the south of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England. It is located 74 miles 66 chains (120.4 km) down the line from London Waterloo and is adjacent to Southampton Airport.
The station has two platforms. One is on the western side with the line running northbound towards London Waterloo, via Winchester, Basingstoke, Woking and Clapham Junction; services via Basingstoke to Reading, Birmingham and the North West also leave from here. The southbound platform facilitates services towards Southampton, Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Weymouth.
History
editThe station opened with different structures as the Atlantic Park Hostel Halt in 1929, built by the Southern Railway and closed before the 1950s. In 1966, many of the present parts were built and services were resumed by British Rail as Southampton Airport (1966). The station was later renamed Southampton Parkway (1986) and Southampton Airport Parkway (1994).
Facilities
editDesigned as a park-and-ride or Parkway station, facilities available include a ticket office, toilets, coffee shop, waiting area, and car parking. The station was upgraded in 2010 with a new footbridge with lifts to improve accessibility for disabled people costing £2 million as part of a wider £7 million investment in the airport. Additionally, lobbying was done to keep the station as a stop on all major routes in the service pattern, which was successful.[1]
Services
edit- 2 tph to London Waterloo (South Western Railway)
- 1 tph to Winchester (South Western Railway)
- 4 tph to Bournemouth via Southampton Central, of which
- 1 tph to Romsey via Chandler's Ford (South Western Railway)
- 1 tph to Salisbury via Southampton Central and Romsey (South Western Railway)
- 1 tph to Manchester Piccadilly via Reading & Birmingham New Street[2] (CrossCountry)
- 1 tpd to Westbury (GWR)
- 1 tpd to Portsmouth Harbour via Southampton Central (GWR)
- 2 tpd to Brighton (Southern)
References
edit- ^ "£7 million investment to transform Southampton Airport". BAA Limited. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
- ^ Table 51 National Rail timetable, May 2016
External links
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- Train times and station information for Southampton Airport Parkway railway station from National Rail