Aldermaston railway station
Aldermaston 
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The station from the footbridge, with a Network Turbo train of First Great Western passing through.
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| Location | |
| Place | Aldermaston Wharf |
| Local authority | West Berkshire |
| Grid reference | SU601673 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | AMT |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 63,784 |
| 2012/13 |
68,218 |
| 2013/14 |
77,452 |
| 2014/15 |
 74,846 |
| 2015/16 |
81,968 |
| History | |
| Original company | Great Western Railway |
| Pre-grouping | GWR |
| Post-grouping | GWR |
| 21 December 1847 | opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Aldermaston from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Aldermaston railway station is a railway station built to serve the village of Aldermaston in Berkshire, England. The station is at nearby Aldermaston Wharf and about 2 miles (3 km) north from Aldermaston village. It was opened on 21 December 1847.
Aldermaston station is between the A4 road and the settlement of Aldermaston Wharf. It has a flanking platform on each side of the double track line. Each platform has its own independent road access and car park, together with a small shelter. The two platforms are also linked by a footbridge. The Newbury-bound platform is flanked on its offside by a siding, formerly used as a headshunt for access to a nearby freight facility. This siding is now defunct as the new A340 road bridge over the railway line has been built on the track in 2012.
The station was built by the Berks and Hants Railway, part of the Great Western Railway and stayed with that company after the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When Sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Network SouthEast although trains of the Intercity Sector passed on the Reading to Taunton Line which uses the Berks and Hants to Westbury for some long distance services. This continued until the Privatisation of British Railways.
A 10.5-mile (16.9 km) branch line connecting Aldermaston to the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway (DNS) at Burghclere was proposed. The line was authorised but never built. This is because the railway finances were loaned by the London and South Western Railway, who stipulated that the DNS must relinquish the sole rights to running Southampton-bound services and abandon plans for the GWR link at Aldermaston. The proposed route roughly followed the Enborne valley, passing south of Brimpton, before following the Gaily Brook and West Clere Scarp near Kingsclere on to Old Burghclere.
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