Mottisfont & Dunbridge railway station

Mottisfont & Dunbridge railway station serves the village of Dunbridge in Hampshire, England. It is on the Wessex Main Line, 84 miles 21 chains (135.6 km) measured from London Waterloo. It is the closest railway station to Mottisfont Abbey and the village of Mottisfont, and the station was renamed Mottisfont & Dunbridge in 2006 to reflect this, having been previously known simply as Dunbridge. Mottisfont previously had a station of its own on the Andover to Romsey line, known as the Sprat and Winkle Line, but this closed on 7 September 1964 under the Beeching Axe.[1]

Mottisfont & Dunbridge
Location
PlaceDunbridge
Local authorityTest Valley
Grid referenceSU318261
Operations
Station codeDBG
Managed bySouth Western Railway
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 27,366
2015/16 29,792
2016/17 29,778
2017/18 31,662
2018/19 33,522
History
1 March 1847Opened as Dunbridge
15 May 1988Renamed Mottisfont Dunbridge
29 May 1994Renamed Dunbridge
2006Renamed Mottisfont & Dunbridge
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Mottisfont & Dunbridge from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

From 9 December 2007 a new service began to serve Mottisfont & Dunbridge. It operates from Salisbury to Southampton Central, via Romsey. South Western Railway operates the service utilising 2-car Class 158 units. Mottisfont & Dunbridge has a roughly hourly service; a vast improvement over the previous frequency. As a result of this Great Western Railway no longer serves the station, although it continued to manage the station, and, As of October 2017 the station still carried full FGW branding. In April 2020 the management of the station was transferred to South Western Railway.[2]

According to station usage statistics Mottisfont & Dunbridge is the second least frequently used station in Hampshire, with only Beaulieu Road having fewer passengers.

Services

The station is managed by South Western Railway, who run an hourly service between Romsey and Salisbury via Southampton Central.[3] This also runs on Sundays, on a two-hourly frequency each way.

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References
  1. Daniels, Gerald David; Dench, Leslie Alan (May 1973) [1964]. Passengers No More (2nd ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 16. ISBN 0-7110-0438-2. OCLC 2554248. 1513 CEC 573.
  2. "South Western Railway welcomes three stations to its family". www.southwesternrailway.com. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  3. Table 158 National Rail timetable, May 2016


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