Virginia Water railway station

Virginia Water
General information
Location	Virginia Water, Runnymede England
Grid reference	TQ001679
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	VIR
Classification	DfT category D
History
Opened	4 June 1856
Passengers
2019/20	0.608 million
Interchange	0.128 million
2020/21	0.150 million
Interchange	32,770
2021/22	0.397 million
Interchange	85,150
2022/23	0.479 million
Interchange	0.122 million
2023/24	0.571 million
Interchange	83,186
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Virginia Water railway station serves the village of Virginia Water, in Surrey, England. It is 23 miles 15 chains (37.3 km) down the line from London Waterloo. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South Western Railway.

The Waterloo to Reading Line and the Chertsey Branch Line join here with the platforms at the junction, as seen in the photograph (taken facing south). Trains from Weybridge and to Reading use either side of a V-shaped platform, allowing cross-platform interchange; the junction of the tracks is at the London end of the station. This station now has ticket barriers operational.

History

The line from Staines to Ascot including this station, was opened by the London and South Western Railway on 4 June 1856; the section to Weybridge opened on 1 October 1866. Formerly a chord south of the station connected the Chertsey and Reading lines.

The station received a new station building in 1973 by British Rail, similarly treated to Wokingham and Sunningdale, from prefabricated concrete. The building is at the right of the photograph.

Modernisation in recent years provides ticket barriers and a bridge for step free access to platforms, incorporating lifts.

Platforms

Virginia Water station has four platforms.

• Platform 1 - Semi-fast trains to London Waterloo via Richmond.
• Platform 2 - Trains to Ascot, Reading and stations to Farnham in peak hours.
• Platform 3 - Stopping service to London Waterloo via Hounslow.
• Platform 4 - Trains to Weybridge, or Woking on Sunday.

Services

Trains from Weybridge (left) and Reading (right) await departure for London Waterloo at Virginia Water

All services at Virginia Water are operated by South Western Railway.

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

• 4 tph to London Waterloo (2 of these are stopping services via Hounslow and 2 are semi-fast via Richmond)
• 2 tph to Weybridge
• 2 tph to Reading via Bracknell

Additional services, including trains to and from Camberley and Aldershot call at the station during the peak hours.

On Sundays, the stopping services between Weybridge and London Waterloo are reduced to hourly and southbound trains run to and from Woking instead of Weybridge.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Egham		South Western Railway Waterloo to Reading Line		Longcross
		South Western Railway Chertsey Branch Line		Chertsey

External links

• Train times and station information for Virginia Water railway station from National Rail