Blackwater | |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Blackwater, Hart |
Country: | England |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | Great Western Railway |
Platforms: | 2 |
Code: | BAW |
Classification: | DfT category F2 |
Years: | 8 July 1849 |
Events: | Opened |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Blackwater railway station is a railway station in Blackwater, a town on the borders of Hampshire, Surrey and Berkshire in England. The station is managed by Great Western Railway, who provide services on the North Downs Line from Reading to Redhill and Gatwick Airport.
Blackwater station has two platforms: platform 1 for services towards Gatwick Airport and platform 2 for services towards Reading. The station is unstaffed and has emergency telephones on both platforms. Both platforms have small sheltered seating areas. It opened in 1849 and was called Blackwater & Camberley.
All services at Blackwater are operated by Great Western Railway using and DMUs.
The typical off-peak service is two trains per hour in each direction between and via . During the late evenings, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction.
On Sundays, only one eastbound train per hour runs to Gatwick Airport, with one train per hour running only as far as .
Stagecoach South route 3 serves the station providing connections to Yateley, Camberley and Aldershot.[1]