Windsor & Eton Riverside  | |||||
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 The Datchet Road frontage of the station. The concourse can be glimpsed through the first of the row of arches in the south-east wall of the station. | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Windsor,Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead England | ||||
| Grid reference | SU968772 | ||||
| Managed by | South Western Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | WNR | ||||
| Classification | DfT category C1 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1 December 1849 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  1.298 million | ||||
| Interchange | 42,754 | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.230 million | ||||
| Interchange | 12,132 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  0.787 million | ||||
| Interchange | 24,001 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 1.058 million | ||||
| Interchange | 42,234 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 1.028 million | ||||
| Interchange | 35,833 | ||||
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Windsor & Eton Riverside station is a station inWindsor,Berkshire, England. The station, close to theRiver Thames andWindsor Castle, is aGrade II listed building.[1] It is 25 miles 48 chains (41.2 km) down the line fromLondon Waterloo and is the terminus of theStaines to Windsor Line, served bySouth Western Railway.[2]
The station is also in close proximity to Windsor's other station,Windsor & Eton Central, which is served byGreat Western Railway trains fromSlough on theWindsor branch of theGreat Western Main Line.
The station building was designed byWilliam Tite as a royal station with a stone-faced frontage with a mullioned and transomed main window, gables and a multi-arch entrance.[3] The main booking hall was decorative but is now awine bar. There is a spacious concourse under thetrain shed at the head of the platforms. The two platforms extend a considerable distance beyond the train shed.[1]
The wall on the southeast (Datchet Road) side of the station forms a long curve, parallel with the platform, containing a series of arches with depressed heads. This wall links the station proper with the former Royal Waiting Room built forQueen Victoria. This is a small building of main room and ante rooms crowned by aturret withspirelet, and hasTudor arched windows. The interior of the main room has a ribbed ceiling with apendantfinial.[1]
The route fromStaines was authorised in 1847 and was opened by the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway as far asDatchet, on the opposite side ofHome Park from the town of Windsor, on 22 August 1848. Opposition from both Windsor Castle andEton College delayed the completion of the line (there was similar opposition to theGreat Western Railway line to Windsor Central), but eventually the Riverside station was opened on 1 December 1849.[4]
In 1848 before Riverside station opened, the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway had been incorporated into theLondon and South Western Railway (LSWR), which ran the services until 1923 when, under the railway grouping of theRailways Act 1921, the LSWR became part of theSouthern Railway. In 1930 the line waselectrified on thethird rail system at a nominal 660voltsDC. In the 1948nationalisation the line became part of theSouthern Region of British Railways.[4]
In 1974 thelevel crossing in the throat of the station giving access toRomney Lock was closed and replaced by a footbridge. Vehicular access to the lock was maintained by a road constructed on the north side of the station through the former goods yard which became the station car park.[4]
As part of theprivatisation of British Rail, theStagecoach Group companySouth West Trains took over operation of the service and the station in 1996. Ownership of the line and station passed toRailtrack and subsequently toNetwork Rail.
TheWindsor Link Railway was a 2009 proposal for a new railway connecting theGreat Western andSouth West Trains franchise areas and potentially linking both toHeathrow Airport. Windsor & Eton Central and Windsor & Eton Riverside railway stations would be replaced withone through-route station in the Windsor Goswells.
The proposal was rejected by the government in December 2018.[5]
On 22 May 2009, the end carriage of the 06:15 departure derailed as the train pulled out of the station causing disruption to services for much of the day.[6] No trains ran the full route, with an hourly service terminating atDatchet and all other trains terminating atStaines.
On 11 October 2009 the bogie of a DEMU (vehicle 60118), on "The Eton Rifles" tour, derailed on arrival at platform 1.[7] The tour could not continue and passengers were sent out on the next timetabled train.
On 30 January 2015, aClass 458/5 operated by South West Trains was damaged by fire following severeelectrical arcing which occurred shortly after departing Windsor & Eton Riverside. The train's guard was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation.[8]
There is usually a half-hourly service to London Waterloo seven days a week, taking just under an hour to reach Waterloo. The service is currently provided bySouth Western Railway.[9]
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Datchet | South Western Railway Windsor Line | Terminus | ||
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