Fratton TMD
Fratton 
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| Location | |
| Place | Fratton |
| Local authority | Portsmouth |
| Coordinates | 50°47′47″N 1°04′26″W / 50.7964°N 1.0740°WCoordinates: 50°47′47″N 1°04′26″W / 50.7964°N 1.0740°W |
| Grid reference | SU653000 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | FTN |
| Managed by | South West Trains |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| DfT category | C2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 1.583 million |
| 2012/13 |
 1.552 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.571 million |
| 2014/15 |
1.644 million |
| 2015/16 |
1.716 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Portmouth & Ryde Joint |
| Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
| 1 July 1885 | Opened (Fratton) |
| 4 July 1905 | Renamed (Fratton and Southsea) |
| 1 December 1921 | Renamed (Fratton) |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Fratton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Fratton railway station is a railway station in Portsmouth, located near Fratton Park, the stadium of association football (soccer) club Portsmouth F.C..
It is located on the Portsmouth Direct Line which runs between London Waterloo and Portsmouth Harbour.
Normally, platforms 2 and 3 serve Portsmouth & Southsea and Portsmouth Harbour, with platform 1 serving all other destinations. Platforms 2 and 3 are also signalled to allow northbound passenger departures.
The railway line through Fratton was planned by the Brighton and Chichester Railway as part of the Chichester to Portsmouth Branch Railway, approved in 1845. The line was completed in 1847, the Brighton and Chichester railway merging with several other companies to form the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1846, who went on to operate the line. Fratton was once the junction for the Southsea Railway which closed in 1914.
After the Motive power depot closed in the late 1950s, some former sidings were used during the withdrawal of the South West Trains greyhound fleet around 2003. The same sidings were then used in 2007 and in 2009 for freight trials, this involved DB Schenker Rail (UK) hauling small container trains to and from eastleigh. The Idea was abandoned in 2010 due to running costs.
The Portsmouth Area Resignalling project was instigated in late 2006, aiming to improve the flexibility of the track layout in the Fratton area. Platform 1 became the Up Main, Platform 3 became the Down Main with Platform 2 as a bidirectional through platform (although the main function of platform 2 is down line trains). Prior to the project, trains could not reverse south to north at Fratton in service.
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