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  Twickenham Location of Twickenham in Greater London | |
| Location | Twickenham |
| Local authority | London Borough of Richmond upon Thames |
| Managed by | South Western Railway |
| Station code | TWI |
| DfT category | C1 |
| Number of platforms | 4[1] |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Fare zone | 5 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2019–20 |  4.991 million[2] |
| – interchange | 0.368 million[2] |
| 2020–21 | 0.933 million[2] |
| – interchange | 88,997[2] |
| 2021–22 |  2.947 million[2] |
| – interchange | 0.206 million[2] |
| 2022–23 | 4.019 million[2] |
| – interchange | 0.344 million[2] |
| 2023–24 | 4.492 million[2] |
| – interchange | 0.242 million[2] |
| Key dates | |
| 22 August 1848 | Opened |
| 28 March 1954 | Resited 230m east |
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| External links | |
| Coordinates | 51°27′01″N0°19′47″W / 51.4504°N 0.3296°W /51.4504; -0.3296 |
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Twickenham railway station is inTwickenham in theLondon Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England, and is inLondon fare zone 5. By track it is 11 miles 22 chains (18.1 km) fromLondon Waterloo. Only one main street abuts the station – at its west end –London Road running between a trunk road south ofTwickenham Stadium and the town centre to the south including the town's public section of riverside.
The station and all trains serving it are operated bySouth Western Railway. Apart fromRichmond Railway Bridge it is at the heart of a long section of two tracksat grade (i.e. the level of the surrounding land) betweenPutney andEgham. Between about this point andSt Margarets station, 500 metres east, are three tracks instead of two. Adding to the station's use, west are returning ends of theKingston andHounslow Loop Lines. A street runs against the south side of the station meaning the westbound platform has long been in island format and doubles as the fast and semi-fast services' eastbound platform.
The predecessor, aneo-Gothic station, was built by the London and Windsor Railway on the west of London Road bridge, opening on 22 August 1848.[3] The station was originally called Twickenham Junction.[4]
Preparatory work for rebuilding by theSouthern Railway in its "Southern Odeon" style on the east of London Road was halted by the outbreak ofWorld War II,[5] with most trackwork and the vertical edgings of the five planned through platforms in place. After the war some platforms were made level for rugby spectators' trains which were hand-flagged through the station. On 28 March 1954, a completely rebuilt station came into use with three through tracks. The two main up platforms face each other. The slower of these sees more than half of services join from a flyover to the south which coupled with the three tracks to St Margarets ensures no hold-ups needed to fast services eastbound.
Platform 1 has not existed as a functioning entity since before 2003; platform 2 has had the conductor rails removed between 2003 and 2006.[6] The trackbeds of both are now (2018) obstructed by temporary buildings.[7]Platform 3 (in 2018) has a direct access from the street available via a queuing area used during events at Twickenham Stadium.
On 4 February 1996, South West Trains ran the first re-privatised service nationally. This ran from Twickenham to London at 05:10. The last regular-scheduled privatised train on the main network was 48 years previously.
All services at Twickenham are operated bySouth Western Railway.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[8]
Additional services, including trains to and fromShepperton,Camberley,Aldershot and London Waterloo viaHounslow call at the station during the peak hours.
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Richmond | South Western Railway | Whitton orFeltham | ||
| St Margarets | South Western Railway | Strawberry Hill | ||
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| Whitton | |||
London Buses routes267,281 andH22, and school route681 serve the station.[9]
TheRFU had petitioned the government to improve the station to be ready to handle the increased use during the2015 Rugby World Cup. Network Rail invested in plans in partnership with Kier Property[10] and new rolling stock was ordered. The partnership's boldest plans were countered by a residents action group. The Supreme Court refused leave to appeal from a series of pro-plan rulings in Summer 2013.[11] The process led to reduced density and aesthetically enhanced plans and construction started in 2017.[12] Enlargement of the complex to be mounted on a broad "podium", an outside street-level plaza, about 115 apartments, new retail units and a permanently open at-grade northern access point are being built in a programme of works forecast to end in 2020.[12][13]
The works include two northern entrances with direct access and footbridge access respectively to platforms 2 and 3 (platform 1 as currently labelled is a siding); and a riverside walk beside theCrane, a large stream or small river linked to its associated Moor Mead park in Twickenham.[12]
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