Maidenhead railway station is a railway station in the town of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western from London Paddington to Reading stations. Maidenhead is also the junction for the Marlow Branch Line. It has five platforms.
Services
tph = trains per hour
4tph to London Paddington, 2tph to Reading, 2tph to Oxford and 1tph to Marlow.
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History
The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway, which opened as far as Reading in 1840. The original Maidenhead Station lay east of the Thames, not far from the present Taplow railway station. This was the line's first terminus, pending the completion of the Sounding Arch (Maidenhead Railway Bridge) bridge over the river. In 1854, the Wycombe Railway Company built a line from Wycombe to Maidenhead, with a station on Castle Hill called Boyn Hill. The bricked up arches which led to the platforms can still be seen. However, there was no station on the present site until 1871, when a local contractor called William Woodbridge built it. Originally, it was called "Maidenhead Junction", but eventually it came to replace the Boyn Hill station as well as the original station on the Riverside .
Crossrail
Maidenhead is the planned western terminus of Crossrail line one. The station will undergo significant modification, including the replacement of the existing passenger waiting facilities, a new ticket hall, lifts, a new platform for Marlow branch line services, the introduction of overhead line equipment and the construction of new stabling and turnback facilities to the west of the station. There is, however, a strong local campaign to extend Crossrail to a terminus at Reading.
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