Chandler's Ford railway station serves the

Chandler's Ford Chandler's Ford (originally The Ford and historically Chandlersford) is a largely residential area and civil parish in the Borough of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England. It has a population of 21,436 in the 2011 UK Census. Chandler's Ford lies on ...

area of

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, England. It is on the Eastleigh to Romsey Line, measured from .

History

The station was opened as a halt by the

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in 1847. Passenger services were withdrawn by British Rail in May 1969, although occasional diverted trains and

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s continued to use the line, passing through the station without calling. A £10 million pound plan was put forward in 1999 to reopen Southampton Terminus and Northam Station, which was to have been controlled by Anglia Railways, their plans included building a new rail-link using the current remaining track by St. Marys Stadium and as far as the Waterfront, which is now safe guarded by

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for future rail links. This would have allowed trains to go from Southampton Waterfront to East Anglia without the need to change at

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. It was also hoped it would reduce the traffic around Southampton with a local commuter line linking the Waterfront to Romsey, Halterworth and

. The plans were thwarted after

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changed their 1999 time table, which resulted in two of Southampton Central's four tracks being blocked for about 20 minutes of each hour, resulting in capacity issues. Chandler's Ford was reopened for passenger traffic on 18 May 2003, though the new station building was not completed until later that year. It was officially opened on 19 October 2003 by the television gardening presenter

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, who lives in the area. The original station had two platforms, but the new station has only one, as the line is now single-track only.

Services

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour to , and one train per hour to via ..

Connections

Chandler’s Ford station is also served by buses on the Bluestar 1 between

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and Winchester via Bassett and Compton.

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Local Rail Information
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