| Totton | |
| Symbol Location: | gb |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Borough: | Totton and Eling, District of New Forest |
| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 50.9178°N -1.4826°W |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Manager: | South Western Railway |
| Platforms: | 2 |
| Code: | TTN |
| Classification: | DfT category E |
| Original: | Southampton and Dorchester Railway |
| Pregroup: | London and South Western Railway |
| Postgroup: | Southern Railway |
| Years: | 1859 |
| Events: | Station opened as Eling Junction |
| Years1: | April 1859 |
| Events1: | Renamed Totton for Eling |
| Years2: | ? |
| Events2: | Renamed Totton |
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Totton railway station serves the towns of Totton and Eling, Hampshire, England and is on the South West Main Line. It is 82chain43chain down the line from . It is managed by South Western Railway who also operate the only services to stop at the station.
The station was constructed by the London and South Western Railway and opened in 1859 as Eling Junction, after the name of the junction with the Eling Tramway branch located adjacent to the station. It was renamed Totton later the same year, after the growing community surrounding the station.[1]
The station passed into the ownership of the Southern Railway following the passing of the Railways Act 1921 and the subsequent grouping. It became the junction station for the Fawley Branch Line, which opened in 1925. Following nationalisation of the railways in 1948, the station became part of British Railways' Southern Region; it is now owned by Network Rail and operated by South Western Railway.
Previously, the station was the terminus of a local service that ran from Totton to Romsey, via a 'horseshoe' shaped route through Southampton Central and Chandler's Ford. This was changed on 9 December 2007, following the new franchise, to a 'six shaped' route from to Romsey via Southampton Central and Chandler's Ford.[2]
The station has few facilities, with a ticket office only open during weekday morning peak hours; there is also a ticket machine available. It has a waiting room, located within the station building on platform 1, but is only available for use during the weekday morning peak time when the station staff are available. A small car park, with 11 spaces, is available for passengers.[3] [4]
Access to the station is available from both the north and south sides of the station, with a footbridge available to cross the track. The station entrances and the footbridge are located at the extreme east end of the platforms; there are no ticket gates present on the station meaning that the footbridge is accessible to any pedestrian wishing to cross the line.[5]
There are two platforms:[3]
The typical off peak service pattern in trains per hour (tph) is:[6]
There are additional services to Poole, Basingstoke and London Waterloo at peak times.
On Sundays, the station is served by an hourly service between London Waterloo and Poole.
The now freight-only Fawley branch line leaves the main line a short distance west of the station. The line has been identified as a priority for reopening to passenger use by Campaign for Better Transport.[7]
The station is also served by several bus services that stop on Commercial Road, to the north of the station; bus operators include First Hants and Dorset, Bluestar and Salisbury Reds.
All routes connect the station with Southampton and the following destinations:[8]
Additional bus services stop in the town centre nearby.
Totton railway station is located approximately a third of a mile away from the town centre of Totton resulting in an location isolated and overlooked from the rest of the town.[9] In the summer of 2015, improvements were made across the town and at the station to link the station up with the rest of the town by providing better quality lighting and roads and directional signage towards the station in the town centre.[10]
Totton station has been adopted by the community group Totton Community Rail, under the Community Rail Network station adoption scheme, in partnership with South Western Railway. The group works to improve the station environment and run community projects, such as the new mural installed in October 2022.[11] [12]