Cosham railway station

Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Template other Template:Portsmouth lines Cosham railway station serves Cosham, a northern suburb of the city of Portsmouth, Hampshire in southern England. It is Template:Miles-chains from Template:Stn.

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

Services at Cosham are operated by Southern, South Western Railway and Great Western Railway using Template:Brc, Template:Brc and Template:Brc EMUs and Template:Brc, Template:Brc and Template:Brc DMUs.

Great Western Railway services between Cardiff and Portsmouth pass through without stopping after 8pm.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

• 1 tph to Template:Stn via Basingstoke
• 2 tph to Brighton via Worthing
• 3 tph to Southampton Central
• 1 tph to Cardiff Central via Bristol Temple Meads
• 3 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea of which 2 continue to Portsmouth Harbour

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 National Rail			Following station
Portchester or Fareham	style="background:#Template:Southern colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Southern West Coastway Line	style="background:#Template:Southern colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Havant
Portchester	style="background:#Template:SWR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	South Western Railway West Coastway Line	style="background:#Template:SWR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Hilsea
	style="background:#Template:SWR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	South Western Railway Template:Smalldiv	style="background:#Template:SWR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Bedhampton
Portchester or Fareham	style="background:#Template:FGW colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Great Western Railway Template:Smalldiv	style="background:#Template:FGW colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Fratton

Gallery

• The crossing gates descend
  The crossing gates descend
• An up train departing
  An up train departing
• Looking east from the High Street footbridge
  Looking east from the High Street footbridge
• Cosham Station in August 1969. Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  Cosham Station in August 1969.

• The view from the Knowlsey Road footbridge
  The view from the Knowlsey Road footbridge
• Looking from the down towards the up platform
  Looking from the down towards the up platform
• SR Merchant Navy Class 35028 Clan Line passing through Cosham Station
  SR Merchant Navy Class 35028 Clan Line passing through Cosham Station
• A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Cosham railway station
  A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Cosham railway station

External links

• Train times and station information for Cosham railway station from National Rail