Parkstone railway station

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General information
Location	Borough of Poole
Managed by	South West Trains
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	PKS
History
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
15 June 1874	Opened

Parkstone railway station serves the Parkstone area of Poole in Dorset, England. 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 five coaches, longer trains only open the doors in the first four or five 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]

The line between Bournemouth and Weymouth was electrified in 1988 using the standard British Rail Southern Region system of a third rail with 750 Volts direct current.

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays the station generally sees two trains per hour to Poole and London Waterloo (one semi-fast and one local stopper) and an hourly service to Weymouth. On Sundays, the service is hourly each way.

References

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Branksome		South West Trains London-Weymouth express services		Poole
Branksome or Bournemouth		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

External links

• Media related to Parkstone railway station at Wikimedia Commons