Bentley railway station (Hampshire)

Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Bentley (Hampshire)
Bentley (Hampshire)
	Bentley railway station
General information
Location	Bentley, East Hampshire; England
Coordinates	51°10′52″N 0°52′05″W / 51.181°N 0.868°W
Grid reference	SU792430
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BTY
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	July 1854
Passengers
2019/20	0.132 million
2020/21	20,640
2021/22	64,764
2022/23	82,486
2023/24	98,966
Notes
Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Bentley railway station serves the village of Bentley in Hampshire, England. It is situated on the Alton Line, between Farnham and Alton. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway.

Bordon Light Railway

Legend

Alton line
to Alton│to Aldershot

Bentley

Blacknest Road

Kingsley Halt

Binsted Road

Longmoor Military Railway

White Hill Road

Bordon

The village of Bentley and the hamlet of Isington are roughly the same distance from the station.

History

Bentley was the northern terminus of the Bentley and Bordon Light Railway, built in 1905 to serve the military camp at Bordon. Built with assistance of the British Army, the line closed to passengers in 1957 (remaining open to serve traffic to the Longmoor Military Railway in times of emergency) and closed to all traffic in 1966; the track was lifted later that same year.^[1]

In June 2009, the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) issued a report (Connecting Communities: Expanding Access to the Rail Network),^[2] which proposed the reinstatement of the line between Bentley and Bordon, as one of 20 schemes that are recommended for further consultation. 14 of these are reinstatements of lines closed in the Beeching cuts.

Services

Trains operate between Alton and London Waterloo, typically every 30 minutes in each direction, every day of the week. However, as Bentley is the least used station on the line, generally speaking alternate trains omit the stop at Bentley, meaning it has an hourly service. Faster services to London also pass through, but do not stop.^{[citation needed]}

Despite the station having two platforms, the majority of the trains stop at, or pass through platform 1. Platform 2 is only used during peak hours or on Sundays, when the station is used as a passing loop.^{[citation needed]}