Kintbury railway station explained

Kintbury
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Kintbury, West Berkshire
Country:England
Coordinates:51.4027°N -1.4459°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:Great Western Railway
Platforms:2
Code:KIT
Classification:DfT category F1
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Kintbury railway station serves the village of Kintbury in Berkshire, England. It is situated on the Reading to Taunton Line, from .

The station was opened in 1847, along with the first portion of the Berks and Hants Railway as far as . This was subsequently extended to and in 1862 and ultimately to Cogload Junction near by 1906. The station has a level crossing at its western end, controlled from a nearby crossing box that also remotely supervises the ones at Hamstead and Hungerford (though this will eventually be abolished and control transferred to the Thames Valley ROC at Didcot by CCTV).

Services

Great Western Railway local trains between and provide the service here. Trains call hourly each way (with peak extras) on weekdays and Saturdays and every two hours each way on Sundays. Some early morning and mid/late evening trains run as far as Reading and/or London Paddington.