Burnham railway station is a railway station serving

Burnham, Buckinghamshire Burnham is a large village and civil parish that lies north of the River Thames in Buckinghamshire, between the towns of Maidenhead and Slough, about 24 miles west of Charing Cross, London. It is probably best known for the nearby Burnham Beech ...

, England, from and situated between to the east and to the west. The station is in Haymill, a ward of western

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, about half a mile to the south of Burnham proper. Originally in

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, the station transferred into the county of

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when county boundaries were realigned in 1974. The station is served by local services operated by the

Elizabeth line The Elizabeth line is a railway line that runs across Greater London and nearby towns, operating similarly to the Réseau Express Régional, RER in Paris and the S-Bahn systems of German-speaking countries. It runs services on dedicated infras ...

. The station is on the

Great Western Main Line The Great Western Main Line (GWML) is a main line railway in England that runs between London Paddington and . It connects to other main lines such as those from Reading to Penzance and Swindon to Swansea. The GWML is presently a part of t ...

, the original line of the

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History

On opening on 1 July 1899, the station was named ''

Burnham Beeches Burnham Beeches is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest situated west of Farnham Common in the village of Burnham, Buckinghamshire, Burnham, Buckinghamshire. The southern half is owned by the Corporation of London and is open to th ...

'', becoming ''Burnham (Bucks)'' from 1 September 1930 to 5 May 1975, and then purely ''Burnham'', although National Rail variously refers to the station as ''Burnham (Bucks)'' and ''Burnham (Berks)''. The station was closed as a

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economy measure from 2 April 1917 to 3 March 1919. In preparation for the introduction of

services, the operation of the station was transferred to TfL Rail (now the Elizabeth line) on behalf of

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at the end of 2017.

Location

The station is situated about half a mile south of Burnham Village and around a mile north of the village of Cippenham and is the closest station to

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Facilities

Burnham Railway Station has a fully staffed ticket office which is open seven days a week. There are three self-service ticket machines inside the ticket office, which opened in 2022. The station has a waiting room which is open during ticket office opening hours. Seating is also available under canopies on each platform. Car parking facilities are around 100 metres away, in a car park operated by APCOA. Parking permits are sold to ticket holders individually from the station, or season ticket holders may purchase tickets from APCOA.

Services

Off-peak, all services at Burnham are operated by the

using

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 4 tph to * 4 tph to of which 2 continue to Additional services call at the station during the peak hours, increasing the service to up to 6 tph in each direction. The station is also served by a small number of early morning and late evening

services between and Reading.

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