Newbury railway station
Newbury 
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The main station building
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| Location | |
| Place | Newbury |
| Local authority | West Berkshire |
| Coordinates | 51°23′53″N 1°19′23″W / 51.398°N 1.323°WCoordinates: 51°23′53″N 1°19′23″W / 51.398°N 1.323°W |
| Grid reference | SU471667 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | NBY |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| 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 |
 1.558 million |
| – Interchange |
 44,074 |
| 2012/13 |
1.628 million |
| – Interchange |
45,329 |
| 2013/14 |
1.664 million |
| – Interchange |
44,636 |
| 2014/15 |
1.746 million |
| – Interchange |
53,136 |
| 2015/16 |
1.827 million |
| – Interchange |
51,208 |
| History | |
| Original company | Berks and Hants Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| 21 December 1847 | Opened |
| 1881 | DN&SR opened |
| 1885 | DN&SR Winchester opened |
| 1898 | LVR opened |
| 1908–1910 | Rebuilt |
| 4 January 1960 | LVR closed |
| May 1964 | DN&SR closed |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Newbury from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Newbury railway station is a railway station in the centre of Newbury, Berkshire, England. It is served by stopping services operated by Great Western Railway from Reading to Newbury and Bedwyn, and by many of its services from London Paddington to Exeter and other parts of Devon and Cornwall — most of those via Taunton — rather than Bristol or London Waterloo via Basingstoke and Salisbury. The station was once a junction with the now-defunct north-south Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway. It was also the junction for the also defunct Lambourn Valley Railway.
Newbury station was opened on 21 December 1847 as part of the Berks and Hants Railway from Reading, Berkshire to Hungerford. Newbury was an important junction on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway (DN&SR), the first section of which opened between Didcot and Newbury in 1881. The route to Winchester was then opened in 1885 but it was not until 1891 that a route to Southampton was completed. However, the route did not include the planned independent Southampton terminus and instead used the terminus owned by the London and South Western Railway.
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