Andover railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Andover
code = ADV

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caption = Andover station exterior
manager = South West Trains
locale = Andover
borough = Test Valley
usage0405 = 0.982
usage0506 = 0.991
usage0607 = 1.015
platforms = 2
years = 1 July 1854
events = Station opened as Andover
years1 = 6 March 1865
events1 = Station renamed Andover Junction
years2 = 7 November 1964
events2 = Station renamed Andover

Andover station serves the town of Andover, Hampshire UK. The station is served and operated by South West Trains. The station is 107 km (66½ miles) south west of London Waterloo on the West of England Main Line (London Waterloo-Exeter).

According to the Office of Rail Regulation statistics on rail trends for the year 2005, 982,255 exits and entries were made at Andover rail station, making it the 14th most used rail station in the county of Hampshire (including the unitary authority areas of Portsmouth City Council and Southampton City Council).

South West Trains have announced recently that they will add automatic ticket barriers in the near future.

History

The station was opened on July 3 1854 and was previously known as Andover Junction, as it stood at the junction of the Exeter-London line and the now-defunct Midland and South Western Junction Railway running between Cheltenham, Swindon, Andover and Southampton Terminus. Andover had a second station, Andover Town, to the south of the junction station on the line to Redbridge that was often called the Sprat and Winkle Line.

Opened by the London and South Western Railway, it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the
Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980's, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

ervices

Typical hourly off-peak service pattern

*West of England Main Line
**1 train/h to London Waterloo (stopping) - South West Trains
**1 train/h to London Waterloo (stopping) - South West Trains
**1tp2h to Yeovil Junction (stopping) - South West Trains
**1tp2h to Exeter St Davids (stopping) - South West Trains
**1 train/h to Salisbury (stopping) - South West Trains

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