Hinton Admiral railway station is a station serving the villages of

Bransgore Bransgore is a village and civil parish within the New Forest District, Hampshire, England. The village developed in the 19th century when a church and a school were built. It is technically classified as an urban area, although in some respects ...

and Hinton and the town of

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on the

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border in southern

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. It is down the line from . hintonadmiralapproach

The station is on the stretch of line opened in 1888 between

Brockenhurst Brockenhurst is the largest village by population within the New Forest in Hampshire, England. The nearest city is Southampton some to the North East, while Bournemouth is also nearby, South West. Surrounding towns and villages include Beaul ...

and

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to provide a direct line from

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to Bournemouth, bypassing the original "Castleman's Corkscrew" line via Ringwood and reducing that line to a backwater. There is no village as such named Hinton Admiral. The station was originally named Hinton after the nearby village, but shortly after being opened was renamed Hinton Admiral to share its name with Hinton Admiral House, the residence of Sir George Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick who owned the land on which the station was built. The station was host to a Southern Railway

camping coach Camping coaches were holiday accommodation offered by many railway companies in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland from the 1930s. The coaches were old passenger vehicles no longer suitable for use in trains, which were converted to ...

from 1938 to 1939. A camping coach was also positioned here by the Southern Region from 1954 to 1960, the coach was replaced from 1961 to 1965 by a ''Pullman'' camping coach.

Services

The station and all passenger train services calling here are operated by South Western Railway. The platforms are able to accommodate trains of up to five coaches (444 and 442 Stock) or six coaches (450 Stock), longer trains only open the doors in the first five or six coaches depending on the type of unit operating the service. As of February 2022, the following services call here in both directions: * Monday - Friday ** peak hours: 2 trains per hour on Poole - London Waterloo service, which some of them join / split at Southampton Central with a fast train for Weymouth ** off-peak: 1 train per hour on Bournemouth - Winchester stopping service * Saturday ** 1 train per hour on Poole - Winchester stopping service * Sunday ** 1 train per hour on Poole - London Waterloo stopping service

References

{{coord, 50.753, N, 1.714, W, type:railwaystation_region:GB, display=title Railway stations in Hampshire DfT Category E stations Former London and South Western Railway stations Railway stations served by South Western Railway Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1888