Parkstone railway station

Parkstone
Location
Place	Parkstone
Local authority	Poole
Operations
Station code	PKS
Managed by	South West Trains
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.130 million
2005/06 *	0.127 million
2006/07 *	0.139 million
2007/08 *	0.150 million
2008/09 *	0.159 million
History
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
15 June 1874	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Parkstone from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Parkstone railway station is a railway station serving the Parkstone area of Poole in Dorset. The platform sign used to say "Parkstone (for Sandbanks)".

The station is operated by South West Trains and is served by both the Weymouth express and the Poole stopping services.

The station is able to accommodate trains of up to 5 coaches, longer trains only open the doors in the first 5 or 4 coaches depending on the type of unit operating the service.

Until 1967 a branch goods line ran from here to the George Jennings South Western Pottery. The line extended from the Pottery to Salterns Pier, on the northern shores of Poole Harbour, until 1922.[1]

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays the station generally sees 2 trains per hour to Poole and London Waterloo and an hourly service to Weymouth.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Branksome		South West Trains London-Weymouth express services		Poole
Branksome		South West Trains London-Poole stopping services		Poole
	Disused railways
Branksome		Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway LSWR and Midland Railways		Poole

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  Down empty stock at Parkstone in 1961

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  Down empty stock between Branksome and Parkstone in 1961