Newbury railway station

Newbury
The station following electrification, showing new footbridge, overhead wires and multi-storey car park (2023)
General information
Location	Newbury, West Berkshire England
Coordinates	51°23′53″N 1°19′23″W / 51.398°N 1.323°W / 51.398; -1.323
Grid reference	SU471667
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	3
Tracks	5
Other information
Station code	NBY
Classification	DfT category C1
History
Original company	Berks and Hants Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
21 December 1847	Opened
1881	DN&SR opened
1885	DN&SR Winchester opened
1898	LVR opened
1908–1910	Rebuilt
4 January 1960	LVR closed
May 1964	DN&SR closed
Passengers
2018/19	1.665 million
Interchange	42,283
2019/20	1.820 million
Interchange	38,702
2020/21	0.308 million
Interchange	5,327
2021/22	0.998 million
Interchange	20,844
2022/23	1.208 million
Interchange	0.112 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Newbury railway station is located in the centre of the market town of Newbury, in the English county of Berkshire. The station is 53 miles 6 chains (53.08 mi; 85.4 km) from the zero point at London Paddington.^[1] It is served by stopping services between Reading and Newbury and Bedwyn, and by faster services between London Paddington and Exeter St Davids and other parts of Devon and Cornwall. All train services at the station are operated by the Great Western Railway.

The station was once a junction with the now-defunct north–south Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway. It was also the junction for the also defunct Lambourn Valley Railway.