Southampton Airport Parkway railway station

Southampton Airport Parkway
The station looking northwards in February 2012
Location
Place	Eastleigh
Local authority	Borough of Eastleigh
Grid reference	SU448170
Operations
Station code	SOA
Managed by	South West Trains
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	C1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12	1.508 million
2012/13	1.540 million
2013/14	1.604 million
2014/15	1.652 million
2015/16	1.819 million
History
30 October 1929	Station opens as Atlantic Park Hostel Halt
Unknown	Station closes
1 April 1966	Station reopens as Southampton Airport
29 September 1986	Station renamed Southampton Parkway for Southampton (Eastleigh) Airport
29 May 1994	Station renamed Southampton Airport Parkway
National Rail – UK railway stations
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Southampton Airport Parkway from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Coordinates: 50°57′01″N 1°21′48″W / 50.9503°N 1.3634°W / 50.9503; -1.3634

Southampton Airport Parkway railway station is a railway station located in Eastleigh in the county of Hampshire in England.

The station comprises two platforms. One is on the western side, with the line running in the northern direction via Winchester, Basingstoke, Woking and Clapham Junction, towards the terminal of London Waterloo (also to Reading, Birmingham New Street and the North West). The other is on the eastern side, with the line running in the southern direction, towards Southampton, Bournemouth, and Weymouth.

The station is very well connected with the rest of the United Kingdom's transport network: it is situated directly next to Southampton Airport and the M3 and M27 motorways, and almost all passenger services stop here.