Bournemouth Central railway station
Bournemouth 
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| Location | |
| Place | Bournemouth |
| Local authority | Borough of Bournemouth |
| Grid reference | SZ096919 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BMH |
| Managed by | South West Trains |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| 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 |
 2.605 million |
| – Interchange |
65,655 |
| 2012/13 |
 2.505 million |
| – Interchange |
71,636 |
| 2013/14 |
2.624 million |
| – Interchange |
69,293 |
| 2014/15 |
2.625 million |
| – Interchange |
74,731 |
| 2015/16 |
2.688 million |
| – Interchange |
74,435 |
| History | |
| Pre-grouping | London and South Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
| 20 July 1885 | Opened (Bournemouth East) |
| 1 May 1899 | Renamed (Bournemouth Central) |
| 10 July 1967 | Renamed (Bournemouth) |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bournemouth from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Bournemouth railway station is the main railway station serving the beach-side town of Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It was known as Bournemouth East (1885 to 1899) and then Bournemouth Central (1899 to 1967). It has long been treated as an obligatory stop (major stop) on the South Western Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth.
A previous incarnation of Bournemouth East station was on another site. Ticket barriers were installed in 2008 and British Transport Police have a Bournemouth office at the station which acts as a regional hub.
The station was designed by William Jacob, chief engineer of the London and South Western Railway, and opened on 20 July 1885 as Bournemouth East replacing the original station of the same name on the other side of Holdenhurst Road from 1870 to 1885, see Bournemouth East railway station (Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway). The station was over 1–km from the town centre on the insistence of town authorities of the time. It was renamed Bournemouth Central on 1 May 1899 and became Bournemouth on 10 July 1967 following the closure of Bournemouth West. By 1967 third rail electrification had reached Bournemouth and continued beyond to Branksome and Bournemouth Depot but no further. From the end of steam most trains were formed of 4REP EMUs coupled up with one or more unpowered 4TC units. The 4TC units would be uncoupled at Bournemouth and attached to a Class 33/1 diesel locomotive for the onward journey to Weymouth. This continued until the electrification of the line from Branksome to Weymouth and the introduction of Wessex Electric units in 1988. The end of steam also saw the removal of the station's centre tracks which ran between the up and down lines serving platforms 2 and 3 respectively and the demolition of the locomotive sheds to the west; the station car park took over their site.
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