Newbury railway station

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 to Newbury and, and by many of its services from 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.HistoryLine openingNewbury 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.