Southampton Airport Parkway railway station is on the South West Main Line located in the south of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England, 74 miles 66 chains (120.4 km) down the line from London Waterloo. It is adjacent to Southampton Airport.
Southampton Airport Parkway | |
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General information | |
Location | Eastleigh, Borough of Eastleigh England |
Grid reference | SU448170 |
Managed by | South Western Railway |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | SOA |
Classification | DfT category C1 |
Key dates | |
30 October 1929 | Opened as Atlantic Park Hostel Halt |
Unknown | Closed |
1 April 1966 | Reopened as Southampton Airport |
29 September 1986 | Renamed Southampton Parkway for Southampton (Eastleigh) Airport |
29 May 1994 | Renamed Southampton Airport Parkway |
Passengers | |
2016/17 | 1.843 million |
2017/18 | 1.672 million |
2018/19 | 1.700 million |
2019/20 | 1.593 million |
Interchange | 0.146 million |
2020/21 | 0.233 million |
Interchange | 29,456 |
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Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
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The station has two platforms. One is on the western side with the line running northbound via Winchester, Basingstoke, Woking and Clapham Junction, towards London Waterloo (also having services via Basingstoke to Reading, Birmingham and the North West). The other line runs southbound towards Southampton, Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Weymouth.
The station opened with different structures as the Atlantic Park Hostel Halt in 1929, built by the Southern Railway and closed before the 1950s. In 1966, many of the present parts were built and services resumed by British Rail as Southampton Airport railway station (1966). The station was later renamed Southampton Parkway railway station (1986) and Southampton Airport Parkway railway station (1994).
Designed as a park and ride or Parkway station, facilities available include: a ticket office, toilets, coffee shop, waiting area and car parking (as . The station was upgraded in 2010 with a new footbridge with lifts to improve accessibility for disabled people costing £2 million as part of a wider £7 million investment in the airport. Lobbying also took place to ensure the service pattern kept the station as a stop on all major routes, which was achieved.[1]
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Winchester | CrossCountry Bournemouth - Manchester |
Southampton Central | ||
Winchester | South Western Railway London - Weymouth |
Southampton Central | ||
Eastleigh | South Western Railway London - Poole |
Southampton Central | ||
South Western Railway Romsey to Salisbury |
Swaythling | |||
Eastleigh | Southern Brighton - Southampton Peak Times Only |
Southampton Central | ||
Eastleigh | Great Western Railway Cardiff - Portsmouth via Southampton Peak Times Only |
Southampton Central |
Settlements in the Borough of Eastleigh | ||
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Railway stations in Hampshire | |||
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Exeter to London | |||
Weymouth to London | |||
Portsmouth to London |
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Alton to London | |||
Brockenhurst to Lymington | |||
Cardiff to Portsmouth | |||
Southampton to Brighton | |||
Eastleigh to Fareham | |||
Southampton to Salisbury via Chandler's Ford |
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Basingstoke to Reading |
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Gatwick Airport to Reading | |||
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Watercress Line |
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Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern and Southeastern routes | |||||
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Stations in italics are served on limited occasions, at peak hours or on Sundays only. | |||||
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