Hinton Admiral railway station is a station serving the villages of Bransgore and Hinton and the seaside town of Highcliffe on the Hampshire/Dorset border in southern England. It is 101 miles 5 chains (162.6 km) down the line from London Waterloo.
Hinton Admiral  | |||||
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 This view is from the road bridge. From the bridge south, the road is called Hinton Wood Avenue. To the north of the bridge, it is Station Road. | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Hinton Admiral, District of New Forest England | ||||
| Grid reference | SZ202948 | ||||
| Managed by | South Western Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | HNA | ||||
| Classification | DfT category E | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Bournemouth Direct Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | London and South Western Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | Southern Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 6 March 1888 | Opened as Hinton[1] | ||||
| 1 May 1888 | Renamed Hinton Admiral for Highcliffe-on-Sea[1] | ||||
| ? | Renamed Hinton Admiral[1] | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  0.164 million | ||||
| 2019/20 | 0.147 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 31,448 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  91,230 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.115 million | ||||
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The station is on the stretch of line opened in 1888 between Brockenhurst and Christchurch to provide a direct line from London to Bournemouth, bypassing the original "Castleman's Corkscrew" line via Ringwood and reducing that line to a backwater.
There is no village as such named Hinton Admiral. The station was originally named Hinton after the nearby village, but shortly after being opened was renamed Hinton Admiral to share its name with Hinton Admiral House, the residence of Sir George Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick who owned the land on which the station was built.[2]
The station was host to a Southern Railway camping coach from 1938 to 1939.[3] A camping coach was also positioned here by the Southern Region from 1954 to 1960, the coach was replaced from 1961 to 1965 by a Pullman camping coach.[4]
Services
editThe station and all passenger train services calling here are operated by South Western Railway. The platforms are able to accommodate trains of up to five coaches (444 and 442 Stock) or six coaches (450 Stock), longer trains only open the doors in the first five or six coaches depending on the type of unit operating the service.
As of February 2022, the following services call here in both directions:
- Monday - Friday
- peak hours: 2 trains per hour on Poole - London Waterloo service, which some of them join / split at Southampton Central with a fast train for Weymouth
- off-peak: 1 train per hour on Bournemouth - Winchester stopping service
- Saturday
- 1 train per hour on Poole - Winchester stopping service
- Sunday
- 1 train per hour on Poole - London Waterloo stopping service
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Milton | South Western Railway London Waterloo - Weymouth |
Christchurch | ||
References
edit- ^ a b c Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- ^ "Untitled". Christchurch Times. 5 May 1888. p. 5.
- ^ McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 33. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
- ^ McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 59. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.