Bentley (Hampshire) railway station

Bentley (Hampshire)
Bentley railway station
Location
Place	Bentley
Local authority	East Hampshire
Coordinates	51°10′52″N 0°52′05″E / 51.181°N 0.868°ECoordinates: 51°10′52″N 0°52′05″E / 51.181°N 0.868°E
Grid reference	SU792430
Operations
Station code	BTY
Managed by	South West Trains
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.134 million
2011/12	0.137 million
2012/13	0.138 million
2013/14	0.143 million
2014/15	0.151 million
History
Key dates	Opened July 1854
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bentley (Hampshire) from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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The station in 1963

Bordon Light Railway
Legend Alton Line Junction with main line Bentley Alton Line Blacknest Road Level Crossing Kingsley Halt Binsted Road Level Crossing Longmoor Military Railway White Hill Road Level Crossing Bordon

Bentley railway station serves the village of Bentley in Hampshire, England. It is situated on the Alton Line, between Farnham and Alton. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South West Trains.

The village of Bentley and the hamlet of Isington are roughly the same distance from the station.

History

Bentley was the northern terminus of the Bentley and Bordon Light Railway, built in 1905 to serve the military camp at Bordon. Built with assistance of the British Army, the line closed to passengers in 1957 (remaining open to serve traffic to the Longmoor Military Railway in times of emergency) and closed to all traffic in 1966; the track was lifted later that same year.^[1]

In June 2009, the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) issued a report (Connecting Communities: Expanding Access to the Rail Network),^[2] which proposed the reinstatement of the line between Bentley and Bordon, as one of 20 schemes that are recommended for further consultation. 14 of these are reinstatements of lines closed in the Beeching cuts.

Services

Trains operate between Alton and London Waterloo, typically every 30 minutes in each direction, every day of the week. However, as Bentley is the least used station on the line, generally speaking alternate trains omit the stop at Bentley, meaning it has an hourly service. Faster services to London also pass through, but do not stop.

Despite the station having two platforms, the majority of the trains stop at, or pass through platform 1. Platform 2 is only used during peak hours or on Sundays, when the station is used as a passing loop.

References

1. Subterranea Britannica: SB-Sites:Bordon Station
2. "Connecting Communities - expanding access to the rail network" (PDF). London: Association of Train Operating Companies. June 2009. p. 17. Archived from the original (pdf) on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2015.

External links

• Train times and station information for Bentley (Hampshire) railway station from National Rail