Goring & Streatley railway station

Goring & Streatley
Goring & Streatley railway station, with a Virgin Voyager train passing on the down relief line.
Location
Place	Goring-on-Thames
Local authority	South Oxfordshire
Grid reference	SU602806
Operations
Station code	GOR
Managed by	First Great Western
Number of platforms	4
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	0.355 million
2004/05 *	0.358 million
2005/06 *	0.344 million
2006/07 *	0.348 million
2007/08 *	0.367 million
2008/09 *	0.373 million
2009/10 *	0.374 million
History
Opened 1 June 1840 (1 June 1840)
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
1 June 1840	GWR Reading to Steventon opened
1 June 1840	Opened as Goring
9 November 1895	Renamed Goring & Streatley
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Goring & Streatley from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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The station from the footbridge; the relief lines are to the right and the fast lines to the left.

The station from the footbridge; looking the other way

Goring & Streatley railway station is a railway station serving the twin villages of Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire and Streatley, Berkshire in England. The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western (FGW).

History

The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway, which opened on 1 June 1840.^[1] Originally named Goring, it was renamed Goring & Streatley on 9 November 1895.^[2]

Description

The station is located in the village of Goring-on-Thames, some five minutes walk from Goring and Streatley Bridge which connects the village with its Berkshire sister, Streatley across the River Thames. The station is adjacent to and to the east of the village centre.

The station has platforms on each of the main and relief (slow) lines, although the platforms on the main lines see little use. The station frontage building is to the east of the station, alongside the London bound relief platform, and there is a large car park, to the south of the station building. There are also two pedestrian entrances directly onto the western, down fast platform, one of which links to Goring village centre. Access between the platforms is via steps and a footbridge. There is access to the fast line platform (London bound).

Services

Goring & Streatley station is served by stopping services run by FGW between Reading and Oxford.

The typical off-peak service from the station is:

• 2 trains per hour to Reading and London Paddington
• 2 trains per hour to Oxford

Most of these services start or continue as semi-fast services between Reading and London Paddington, there are also additional services during morning peak hours on weekdays. Saturday services run half hourly, but Sunday services are only hourly.

Typical journey times are about 15 minutes to Reading, 20 minutes to Oxford, and just over an hour to Paddington.^[3]

In 2008 only 74.9% of trains ran on time on FGW's Thames Valley route serving Goring & Streatley station, with peak period reliability especially badly hit.^[4]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Pangbourne		First Great Western Commuter services Great Western Main Line		Cholsey
	Historical railways
Pangbourne Line and station open		Great Western Railway Great Western Main Line		Moulsford Line open, station closed

References

Notes

1. ^ MacDermot, E.T. (1927). "Chapter IV Construction". History of the Great Western Railway. 1 (1st ed.). Paddington: Great Western Railway. p. 102. 
2. ^ Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (March 2002). "Figure 53". Reading to Didcot. Western Main Lines. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1 901706 79 6. 
3. ^ "Train Times". First Great Western. http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=3. Retrieved 12 April 12 2007. 
4. ^ First Great Western Performance results 2008

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 

Coordinates: 51°31′19.20″N 1°08′0.60″W / 51.522°N 1.1335°W / 51.522; -1.1335