Southampton Airport Parkway railway station

Southampton Airport Parkway
The station looking northwards on 8 September 2006
Location
Place	Eastleigh
Local authority	Eastleigh
Operations
Station code	SOA
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 *	1.190 million
2005/06 *	1.421 million
2006/07 *	1.322 million
2007/08 *	1.404 million
2008/09 *	1.461 million
2009/10 *	1.411 million
History
30 October 1929	Station opens as Atlantic Park Hostel Halt
Unknown	Station closes
1 April 1966	Station reopens as Southampton Airport
29 September 1986	Station renamed Southampton Parkway for Southampton (Eastleigh) Airport
29 May 1994	Station renamed Southampton Airport Parkway
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Southampton Airport Parkway from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Southampton Airport Parkway railway station is a railway station located in Eastleigh in the county of Hampshire in England.

The station comprises two platforms. One is on the western side, with the line running in the northern direction via Winchester, Basingstoke, Woking, and Clapham Junction, towards the terminal of London Waterloo. The other is on the eastern side, with the line running in the southern direction, towards Southampton, Bournemouth, and Weymouth.

The station is very well connected with the rest of the United Kingdom's transport network: it is situated directly next to Southampton Airport and the M3 and M27 motorways, and virtually all passenger services stop here.

History

A station opened on the site as the Atlantic Park Hostel Halt in 1929, though later closed. In 1966, the station was built as Southampton Airport Halt before changing to Southampton Parkway (in 1986), with another name change in the 1990s to Southampton Airport Parkway.

Services

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Winchester		Bournemouth-Manchester Cross Country Network		Southampton Central
		CrossCountry Southampton-Newcastle
		CrossCountry Bournemouth-Edinburgh
Winchester		South West Trains London - Weymouth		Southampton Central
Eastleigh		South West Trains London - Poole		Southampton Central
		South West Trains Romsey to Salisbury		Swaythling
Eastleigh		Southern Brighton - Southampton		Southampton Central

General

Facilities available include: a ticket office; toilets; coffee shop; waiting area; first class lounge; and car parking. The station was upgraded in 2010 with a new foot bridge with lifts to improve accessibility for disabled people costing £2m as part of a wider £7m investment in the airport. The lifts are in use throughout the service

External links

• Train times and station information for Southampton Airport Parkway railway station from National Rail
• Local Rail Information