Bourne End railway station serves Bourne End in Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the Marlow Branch Line between Maidenhead and Marlow, 4 miles 36 chains (7.2 km) down the line from Maidenhead and 28 miles 55 chains (46.2 km) measured from London Paddington.

Bourne End
Great Western Railway Class 165 121 DMU arrives from Maidenhead. The driver will now change ends to continue to Marlow.
General information
Location	Bourne End, Buckinghamshire England
Grid reference	SU894872
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BNE
Classification	DfT category E
History
Original company	Wycombe Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	GWR
Key dates
1 August 1854	Opened as Marlow Road
1873	Marlow branch opened
1874	Renamed Bourne End
May 1970	line to High Wycombe closed
Passengers
2016/17	0.257 million
Interchange	87,907
2017/18	0.243 million
Interchange	96,873
2018/19	0.266 million
Interchange	104,376
2019/20	0.261 million
Interchange	111,635
2020/21	61,366
Interchange	22,960
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Services are provided by Great Western Railway. The ticket office is open on weekday and Saturday mornings. There is a customer car park south of the station. The station has two platforms.

History

The station was originally named Marlow Road station. In 1874 Marlow Road station was renamed Bourne End to obviate confusion with the newly opened Marlow station.

The station was opened in 1854 as part of the Wycombe Railway Company line between Maidenhead Boyne Hill station and High Wycombe. To reach Bourne End, a wooden viaduct was built across Cockmarsh and a wooden bridge was built across the River Thames.

In 1873 a line linking Bourne End with Marlow was opened to the public, with 1,700 tickets being sold in the first week. Originally the branch line was served by a third platform on the west side of the station.

The service on the branch line is known locally as the "Marlow Donkey", which is commemorated by a local pub of the same name, although the origin of the term is unclear.[1] The 'small' waiting room building from Bourne End Station (left of picture) lives on at Bourne Again Junction on the Fawley Hill Railway, home of the late Sir William McAlpine. A camping coach was positioned here by the Western Region in 1960.[2]

Partial closure

British Rail closed the line between Bourne End and High Wycombe in May 1970, but trains still run between Maidenhead and Marlow.

Future

It has been proposed that the Line between Bourne End and High Wycombe be reopened. A feasibility study is under way to see if it is economical to do so.[3]

Services

Bourne End is a terminus but effectively acts as a through station, with the driver having to change ends to continue to the next station. During peak hours service frequency is increased by having two trains work the line, each using Bourne End as the terminus: one runs Marlow – Bourne End and one Maidenhead – Bourne End, with passengers changing trains at Bourne End. This service pattern is needed to meet peak-time demand, as the platforms at Bourne End are not long enough to accommodate longer trains. While Bourne End has two platforms, platform 2 is only accessible from Maidenhead and not from Marlow, and so cannot be used as a passing loop. Since May 2017 there are no through trains to London Paddington.

The basic daytime service runs hourly each way to Maidenhead & Marlow seven days a week, with the additional peak services operating half hourly Monday to Friday only.[4]

References

External links

• Train times and station information for Bourne End railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Marlow		Great Western Railway Marlow Branch Line		train reverses
Cookham
	Disused railways
Wooburn Green		Wycombe Railway Until 1970		Cookham