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Bracknell railway station serves the town of

Bracknell Bracknell () is a large town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, the westernmost area within the Greater London Urban Area and the administrative centre of the Borough of Bracknell Forest. It lies to the east of Reading, south of Maiden ...

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, England. It is down the line from . The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South Western Railway. It is on the

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History

The station was opened in 1856 by the Staines and Wokingham Railway which was taken over by the

London and South Western Railway The London and South Western Railway (LSWR, sometimes written L&SWR) was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922. Originating as the London and Southampton Railway, its network extended to Dorchester and Weymouth, to Salisbury, Exeter ...

in 1878.

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four (British ra ...

ways closed the goods yard in 1969. The station was redeveloped in 1975, and the entrance is now under the Bracknell Quintiles building.

Services

Trains run between and every 30 minutes, seven days a week. On weekdays there are extra morning and evening peak time trains between Reading and London Waterloo, with one evening service from Reading terminating at .GB eNRT 2015-16 Edition, Table 149 (Network Rail) Journey times to London Waterloo are around an hour, whilst to Reading it is 20 mins. Bracknell bus station is next to the railway station.

Improvements

In 2008 work began to improve access for passengers with wheelchairs, baby-vehicles or bicycles. A new covered footbridge, with both staircases and lifts, was completed and opened in 2009. Before this, the only way to reach the " Down" (Reading-bound) platform was over the steps of the original footbridge at the London end of the platforms. This was a classic Southern Railway design with no roof, built of pre-cast concrete sections. It had also provided direct access from Crowthorne Road North, but this extra span had long been disconnected. Once the new bridge was opened, the old bridge was taken out of use and fenced off. It was demolished in May 2009. In 2017 the platforms were extended to accommodate 10 to 12 car trains with the increase of passengers on the line

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* {{SWT Stations, Reading=y, Main line None=y, IL None=y Railway stations in Berkshire DfT Category C2 stations Former London and South Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856 Railway stations served by South Western Railway Bracknell