Cosham railway station serves Cosham, a northern suburb of the city of Portsmouth, Hampshire in southern England. It is 90 miles 6 chains (90.08 miles, 144.96 km) from London Waterloo.[2]
General information | |
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Location | Cosham, Portsmouth England |
Grid reference | SU657051 |
Managed by | South Western Railway |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | CSA |
Classification | DfT category D |
History | |
Opened | 1 October 1848[1] |
Original company | London and South Western Railway |
Pre-grouping | Portsmouth and Ryde Joint Railway |
Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 0.925 million |
2019/20 | 0.938 million |
2020/21 | 0.263 million |
2021/22 | 0.662 million |
2022/23 | 0.765 million |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Railways in the Portsmouth area |
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Opened in 1848 by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR), it is located on the West Coastway Line which runs between Brighton and Southampton. It is currently served by the South Western Railway, Southern, and Great Western Railway train operating companies.
The station used to have a small goods yard which served local freight trains around Portsmouth. Today all that remains is an old loading gauge, with the original site being built upon.
Services at Cosham are operated by Southern, South Western Railway and Great Western Railway using Class 377, 444 and 450 EMUs and Class 158, Class 165 and 166 DMUs.
Great Western Railway services pass through without stopping after 8pm.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[3]
The station is also served by a single daily service from London Waterloo to Southampton Central via Guildford, which runs directly to Cosham from Bedhampton.
Westward, the line through Cosham leads to Portchester and Fareham, eastward to a junction (part of the local "Railway Triangle") between lines leading south to Hilsea and Portsmouth and east to Bedhampton and Havant.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Portchester or Fareham | Southern West Coastway Line |
Havant | ||
Portchester | South Western Railway West Coastway Line |
Hilsea | ||
South Western Railway
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Bedhampton | |||
Portchester or Fareham | Great Western Railway
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Fratton |
50°50′31″N 1°04′03″W / 50.84194°N 1.06750°W