Martins Heron railway station
Martins Heron 
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| Location | |
| Place | Bracknell |
| Local authority | Bracknell Forest |
| Grid reference | SU887683 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | MAO |
| Managed by | South Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | D |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.522 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.538 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.562 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.584 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.588 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 3 October 1988 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Martins Heron from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Martins Heron railway station is a railway station in Martins Heron, a suburb on the eastern edge of Bracknell, Berkshire, England. The station is between Ascot and Bracknell on the London Waterloo – Reading line. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South Western Railway.
To support the eastward expansion of Bracknell in the 1980s, British Rail opened the station at Martins Heron on 3 October 1988. This was the eighth new station opened by Network SouthEast in two years, and cost £500,000, which was jointly met by BR and Berkshire County Council. The platforms and part of the station building were built on railway land, but the access road and car park are on land owned by Tesco. This land, and part of the building costs, were contributed by Tesco as a condition of being granted planning permission for a supermarket. The station building was a brick chalet construction, which was far more attractive than the 1970s concrete buildings seen at many other stations on the line.
Just to the east of the station, the local road passes over the railway on a bridge and there is a footpath underneath. In line with the local council policy of decorating all pedestrian underpasses, they commissioned two railway-themed murals for the overbridge walls in 1989. On the north wall is a Great Western scene and on the south wall, a Southern railway scene. Both are visible from passing trains and remain remarkably undamaged.
Martins Heron has two basic platforms with entrances on both platforms, and a wooden footbridge joining them. Platform 1 has a ticket office and enclosed waiting room, that is open in the morning, 7 days a week. Both platforms have a ticket machine and shelter, and were originally long enough for eight coach trains. In 2016 they were extended to the east to accommodate ten coach trains as part of South West Trains' project to increase capacity on their major routes.
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