Burnham railway station

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General information
Location	Borough of Slough
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BNM
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1 July 1899	Opened as Burnham Beeches
2 April 1917	Closed
3 March 1919	Reopened
1 September 1930	Renamed Burnham (Bucks)
5 May 1975	Renamed Burnham

Burnham railway station is the railway station for Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, although it lies in Haymill, a ward of Slough, about half a mile to the south of Burnham proper. Originally in Buckinghamshire the station moved into the county of Berkshire when county boundaries were realigned in 1974.

The station is served by local services operated by Great Western Railway from Template:LUL stations to Reading stations. The station is on the Great Western Main Line, the original line of the Great Western Railway. From opening on 1 July 1899, the station was named Burnham Beeches, becoming Burnham (Bucks) from 1 September 1930 to 5 May 1975, and then purely Burnham,^[1] although National Rail variously refers to the station as Burnham (Bucks) and Burnham (Berks). The station was closed as a First World War economy measure from 2 April 1917 to 3 March 1919.^[1]^[2]

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 Slough Trading Estate.^[3]

Facilities

Burnham Railway Station has a fully staffed ticketing office which is open 7 days a week. There is also a new self-service ticket machine, which replaced one that thieves attempted to break into in 2007. This machine accepts cash, debit and credit cards.

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. ^[4]

Services

Burnham Station is served by Great Western Railway Class 165 and Class 166 trains towards London Paddington and Reading.

Burnham has an island platform - platform 1 has services to Reading and platform 2 has services to London Paddington. The normal frequency of service are four trains an hour, two toward Paddington and two towards Reading approximately every 30 minutes. In the evenings & on Saturdays, trains continue through to/from Oxford.^[5]

There are hourly services on Sundays, which do not call at Taplow. Unusually for a station on the Great Western Main Line, Burnham was built with platforms that serve only the relief lines, which makes it vulnerable to losing services when engineering work closes the relief lines and leaves trains only on the main lines. Consequently, the station is frequently served by a replacement bus service at night.

References

^ ^a ^b Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 49. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
^ Mitchell, Victor E.; Smith, Keith (November 2000). Western Main Lines: Slough to Newbury. Midhurst: Middleton Press. map VI, photographs 14, 15, 16 and captions. ISBN 1-901706-56-7. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-29. Retrieved 2012-04-15. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Car Parking Information from FGW Site
^ GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 117

External links

Train times and station information for Burnham railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station
Taplow		Great Western Railway Great Western Main Line	Slough
	Future Development
Preceding station		Crossrail	Following station
Template:LCR stations toward Template:LCR stations		Template:LCR lines	Template:LCR stations toward Template:LCR stations

[Butt-1] Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 49. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

[2] Mitchell, Victor E.; Smith, Keith (November 2000). Western Main Lines: Slough to Newbury. Midhurst: Middleton Press. map VI, photographs 14, 15, 16 and captions. ISBN 1-901706-56-7. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-29. Retrieved 2012-04-15. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] Car Parking Information from FGW Site

[5] GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 117

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v t e Railway stations in Berkshire
Great Western Main Line	Burnham Langley Maidenhead Pangbourne Reading Slough Tilehurst Twyford
Reading–Taunton line	Aldermaston Hungerford Kintbury Midgham Newbury Newbury Racecourse Reading Reading West Thatcham Theale
Waterloo–Reading line	Ascot Bracknell Earley Martins Heron Reading Sunningdale Winnersh Winnersh Triangle Wokingham
North Downs Line	Crowthorne Earley Reading Sandhurst Winnersh Winnersh Triangle Wokingham
Reading–Basingstoke line	Mortimer Reading Reading Green Park Reading West
Staines–Windsor line	Datchet Sunnymeads Windsor & Eton Riverside Wraysbury
Slough–Windsor & Eton line	Slough Windsor & Eton Central
Henley branch line	Twyford Wargrave
Marlow branch line	Cookham Furze Platt Maidenhead