Parkstone railway station serves the

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area of

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, England. The platform sign formerly read "Parkstone (for

Sandbanks Sandbanks is an affluent neighbourhood of Poole, Dorset, on the south coast of England, situated on a narrow spit of around 1 km2 or 0.39 sq mi extending into the mouth of Poole Harbour. It is known for its high property prices and for it ...

)". The station is operated by South Western Railway and is served by both the Weymouth express and the

stopping services. It is down the line from . The station is able to accommodate trains of up to five coaches; longer trains only open the doors in the first four or five coaches depending on the type of unit operating the service. It was served by the

Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, also known as the S&D, SDJR or S&DJR, was an English railway line connecting Bath (in north-east Somerset) and Bournemouth (now in south-east Dorset but then in Hampshire), with a branch from Evercreec ...

line from Bath Green Park to Bournemouth West from 1874 until the

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in 1966. Until 1967 a branch goods line ran from here to the George Jennings South Western Pottery. The line extended from the Pottery to Salterns Pier, on the northern shores of

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, until 1922. The line between Bournemouth and Weymouth was electrified in 1988 using the standard British Rail Southern Region system of a third rail with 750 Volts direct current.

Services

The station is served by South Western Railway. The typical off-peak stopping pattern of this station, as of June 2021, is below: * 1 train per hour on Monday-Friday on Poole-London Waterloo express service. * 2 trains per hour on Saturday, 1 on Weymouth-London Waterloo express service, and 1 on Poole-Winchester stopping service. * 1 train per hour on Sunday on Weymouth-London Waterloo express service.

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* Railway stations in Poole Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874 Former London and South Western Railway stations Railway stations served by South Western Railway DfT Category E stations {{SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub