Virginia Water railway station


Virginia Water railway station serves the village of Virginia Water, in Surrey, England. It is down the line from. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South Western Railway.
The Waterloo to Reading Line and the Chertsey Branch Line join here with the platforms at the junction, as seen in the photograph. Trains from Weybridge and to Reading use either side of a V-shaped platform, allowing cross-platform interchange; the junction of the tracks is at the London end of the station. This station now has ticket barriers operational.

History

The line from to including this station, was opened by the London and South Western Railway on 4 June 1856; the section to Weybridge opened on 1 October 1866. Formerly a chord south of the station connected the Chertsey and Reading lines.
The station received a new station building in 1973 by British Rail, similarly treated to Wokingham and Sunningdale, from prefabricated concrete. The building is at the right of the photograph.
The station had until 2017 a bridge between the platforms at the north end of the station, making disabled access to platforms 2-4 very difficult. In 2017 a new bridge opened just south of the station building, incorporating lifts. All platforms are now accessible for wheel-chairs.
Ticket barriers are now in operation.

Platforms

Virginia Water station has four platforms.
In trains per hour, Monday to Saturday, there are:
On Sundays, the via Hounslow stopping trains run hourly & the two Weybridge locals are replaced by one to/from calling at the same stations as far as, then &.