Branksome railway station

Branksome
Location
Place	Branksome
Local authority	Borough of Poole
Grid reference	SZ057919
Operations
Station code	BSM
Managed by	South West Trains
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.233 million
2011/12	0.231 million
2012/13	0.243 million
2013/14	0.259 million
2014/15	0.256 million
History
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
1 June 1893	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Branksome from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Branksome railway station is a railway station serving the Branksome and Branksome Park areas of Poole in Dorset, England. It is located on the South Western Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth.

History

The station in 1963

The London and South Western Railway (LSWR) opened their line from Bournemouth to Poole in 1874, but the station was not opened until 1893 when it was the site of a junction with the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway line whose trains to Bath started and finished at a terminus station, Bournemouth West. The S&DJR opened a locomotive depot at the station in 1895 which operated until closure of the line into Bournemouth West in 1965, after which the S&D trains ran, for the remaining few months of operation, into Bournemouth Central railway station, which had its own locomotive shed.

The line between Bournemouth Central to Branksome and Bournemouth Traincare Depot was electrified in 1967 to enable stock to access Bournemouth Depot. The route west of Brankome to Weymouth was electrified in 1988 using the standard British Rail Southern Region system of a third rail with 750 Volts direct current.

Accommodation

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.

To the east of the station is the junction leading to Bournemouth Train Care Depot, built on part of the site of Bournemouth West station. Trains can often be seen arriving on platform 2 and then reversing into the depot.

Services

The station is served by South West Trains, who operate express services from London Waterloo to Weymouth and stopping services from London Waterloo to Poole.

On Mondays to Saturdays the station generally sees 2 trains per hour to Poole and London Waterloo (one semi-fast and one stopping) and an hourly service to Weymouth. An hourly service operates in each direction on Sundays.^[1]

References

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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Branksome railway station.

• SDJR.net Junctions and Pottery Siding

Coordinates: 50°43′41″N 1°55′08″W / 50.728°N 1.919°W / 50.728; -1.919