Andover railway station
Andover 
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Andover station exterior
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| Location | |
| Place | Andover |
| Local authority | Test Valley |
| Grid reference | SU355459 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | ADV |
| Managed by | South West Trains |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | C1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 1.135 million |
| – Interchange |
1,050 |
| 2012/13 |
 1.124 million |
| – Interchange |
1,108 |
| 2013/14 |
1.179 million |
| – Interchange |
1,191 |
| 2014/15 |
1.178 million |
| – Interchange |
1,207 |
| 2015/16 |
1.206 million |
| – Interchange |
1,223 |
| History | |
| 3 July 1854 | Station opened as Andover |
| 6 March 1865 | Station renamed Andover Junction |
| 7 November 1964 | Station renamed Andover |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Andover from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Andover station serves the town of Andover, Hampshire, England. The station is served and operated by South West Trains. The station is 66 1⁄2 miles (107.0 km) south west of London Waterloo on the West of England Main Line (London Waterloo-Exeter).
According to the Office of Rail Regulation statistics on rail trends for the year 2005, 982,255 exits and entries were made at Andover rail station, making it the 14th most used rail station in the county of Hampshire (including the unitary authority areas of Portsmouth City Council and Southampton City Council).
The station was opened on 3 July 1854 and was previously known as Andover Junction, as it stood at the junction of the Exeter-London line and the now-defunct Midland and South Western Junction Railway running between Cheltenham, Swindon, Andover and Southampton Terminus. Andover had a second station, Andover Town, to the south of the junction station on the line to Redbridge that was often called the Sprat and Winkle Line. This route fell victim to the Beeching Axe in September 1964, three years after passenger trains had been withdrawn from the M&SWJR line.
Opened by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR), it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
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