Burnham railway station is a railway station serving
Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, from and situated between to the east and to the west. The station is in Haymill, a ward of western
Slough, about half a mile to the south of Burnham proper. Originally in
Buckinghamshire, the station transferred into the county of
Berkshire when county boundaries were realigned in 1974.
The station is served by local services operated by the
Elizabeth line
The Elizabeth line is a high-frequency hybrid urban–suburban rail service in London and its suburbs. It runs services on dedicated infrastructure in central London from the Great Western Main Line west of Paddington to and via Whitechapel ...
. The station is on the
Great Western Main Line, the original line of the
Great Western Railway.
History
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On opening on 1 July 1899, the station was named ''
Burnham Beeches'', becoming ''Burnham (Bucks)'' from 1 September 1930 to 5 May 1975, and then purely ''Burnham'',
although National Rail variously refers to the station as ''Burnham (Bucks)'' and ''Burnham (Berks)''. The station was closed as a
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
economy measure from 2 April 1917 to 3 March 1919.
In preparation for the introduction of
Elizabeth line
The Elizabeth line is a high-frequency hybrid urban–suburban rail service in London and its suburbs. It runs services on dedicated infrastructure in central London from the Great Western Main Line west of Paddington to and via Whitechapel ...
services, the operation of the station was transferred to TfL Rail (now the Elizabeth line) on behalf of
Transport for London at the end of 2017.
Location
The station is situated about half a mile south of Burnham Village and around a mile north of the village of Cippenham and is the closest station to
Slough Trading Estate
The Slough Trading Estate founded in Slough in Buckinghamshire in 1920, was an early business park in the United Kingdom. According to the estate's owners and operators, Segro, Slough Trading Estate consists of of commercial property in Slough ...
.
Facilities
Burnham Railway Station has a fully staffed ticketing office which is open 7 days a week. There are three self-service ticket machines, two at the station entrance and one on the platform. The machines accept cash, debit and credit cards.
The station has a waiting room which is open during ticket office opening hours. Seating is also available under canopies on each platform.
Car parking facilities are around 100 metres away, in a car park operated by APCOA. Parking permits are sold to ticket holders individually from the station, or season ticket holders may purchase tickets from APCOA.
Services
Since November 2022, Burnham Station is served by Elizabeth line
Class 345 trains towards
Abbey Wood
Abbey Wood is an area in south east London, England, straddling the border between the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley. It is located east of Charing Cross.
Toponymy
The area takes its name from Lesnes Abbey Woo ...
and Reading.
Burnham has an island platform – platform 1 has services to Reading and platform 2 has services to Abbey Wood. Service frequency is six TfL trains per hour in each direction during weekday peak times, four per hour at other times.
Unusually for a station on the Great Western Main Line, Burnham was built with platforms that serve only the relief lines, which makes it vulnerable to losing services when engineering work closes the relief lines and leaves trains only on the main lines. Consequently, the station is frequently served by a replacement bus service at night.
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Railway stations in Berkshire
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Former Great Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1899
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Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919
Railway stations served by the Elizabeth line
1899 establishments in England
Burnham, Buckinghamshire