Virginia Water railway station

Virginia Water railway station serves the village of Virginia Water, in Surrey, England. It is 23 miles 15 chains (37.3 km) down the line from London Waterloo. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South Western Railway.

Virginia Water
Trains from Weybridge (left) and Reading (right) await departure for London Waterloo at Virginia Water
Location
Place	Virginia Water
Local authority	Runnymede
Grid reference	TQ001679
Operations
Station code	VIR
Managed by	South Western Railway
Number of platforms	4
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.596 million
2015/16	0.606 million
2016/17	0.593 million
2017/18	0.576 million
– Interchange	85,913
2018/19	0.605 million
– Interchange	87,971
History
Key dates	Opened 4 June 1856 (4 June 1856)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Virginia Water from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The Waterloo to Reading Line and the Chertsey Branch Line join here with the platforms at the junction, as seen in the photograph (taken facing south). Trains from Weybridge and to Reading use either side of a V-shaped platform, allowing cross-platform interchange; the junction of the tracks is at the London end of the station. This station now has ticket barriers operational.

History

The line from Staines to Ascot including this station, was opened by the London and South Western Railway on 4 June 1856; the section to Weybridge opened on 1 October 1866. Formerly a chord south of the station connected the Chertsey and Reading lines.

The station received a new station building in 1973 by British Rail, similarly treated to Wokingham and Sunningdale, from prefabricated concrete. The building is at the right of the photograph.

The station had until 2017 a bridge between the platforms at the north end of the station, making disabled access to platforms 2-4 very difficult. In 2017 a new bridge opened just south of the station building, incorporating lifts. All platforms are now accessible for wheel-chairs.

Ticket barriers are now in operation.

Platforms

Virginia Water station has four platforms.

• Platform 1 - Semi-fast trains to London Waterloo via Richmond.
• Platform 2 - Trains to Reading.
• Platform 3 - Stopping service to London Waterloo via Hounslow.
• Platform 4 - Trains to Weybridge.

Services

In trains per hour, Monday to Saturday, there are:

• 4 to London Waterloo, of which:
  • 2 are semi-fast, via Twickenham & Richmond
  • 2 are stopping via Hounslow
• 2 to Reading
• 2 to Weybridge,

On Sundays, the via Hounslow stopping trains run hourly & the two Weybridge locals are replaced by one to/from Woking calling at the same stations as far as Addlestone, then Byfleet and New Haw & West Byfleet.[1]

References

1. Table 149 National Rail timetable, May 2016

External links

• Train times and station information for Virginia Water railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Egham		South Western Railway Waterloo to Reading		Longcross
		South Western Railway Waterloo to Chertsey via Hounslow		Chertsey