Alton railway station

Alton
General information
Location	Alton, East Hampshire England
Grid reference	SU723397
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	3 (2 National Rail, 1 Watercress Line)
Other information
Station code	AON
Classification	DfT category C2
Key dates
28 July 1852	Station opens
2 October 1865	Station moves to adjacent site
February 1973	National Rail services west of Alton curtailed
25 May 1985	Watercress Line begins heritage services west of Alton
Passengers
2019/20	0.679 million
2020/21	0.133 million
2021/22	0.387 million
2022/23	0.496 million
2023/24	0.544 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

v t e Basingstoke & Alton Light Railway
Legend
South West Main Line to Waterloo Basingstoke South West Main Line to Weymouth Thornycroft sidings Viables level crossing Cliddesden Bushywarren Lane crossing Bagmore Lane crossing Herriard Salter Hatch crossing (Spain Lane) Bentworth and Lasham level crossing Treloar's Hospital Platform (private) Treloar's Hospital siding Alton line to Brookwood Alton Butts Junction Watercress Line to Alresford Meon Valley Railway to Fareham

Alton railway station serves the market town of Alton, in the English county of Hampshire. The station is the terminus for two railway lines: the Alton Line, which runs to Brookwood and on to London Waterloo, and the Mid Hants Watercress Railway which runs to Alresford. The latter once ran through to Winchester, but was closed to passengers in February 1973;^[1] it reopened as a heritage line in 1985. Two other routes, both now closed, also served the station: the Meon Valley line to Fareham and the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway.

Services operate along the Alton Line to Brookwood and join the South West Main Line towards London Waterloo. The line was single-tracked as far as Farnham by British Rail in the early 1980s.