Cosham railway station

Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Cosham
Cosham
	View of the station in 2013
General information
Location	Cosham, Portsmouth; England
Grid reference	SU657051
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CSA
Classification	DfT category D
History
Opened	1 October 1848
Original company	London and South Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Portsmouth and Ryde Joint Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Passengers
2019/20	0.938 million
2020/21	0.263 million
2021/22	0.662 million
2022/23	0.765 million
2023/24	0.812 million
Notes
Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Cosham railway station serves Cosham, a northern suburb of the city of Portsmouth, Hampshire in southern England. It is 90 miles 6 chains (90.08 miles, 144.96 km) from London Waterloo.^[2]

Railways in the Portsmouth area

Legend

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 Class 377, 444 and 450 EMUs and Class 158, Class 165 and 166 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:^[3]

1 tph to London Waterloo 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		Following station
Portchester or Fareham	Southern West Coastway Line	Havant
Portchester	South Western Railway West Coastway Line	Hilsea
Portchester	South Western Railway Portsmouth Direct Line Limited Service	Bedhampton
Portchester or Fareham	Great Western Railway West Coastway Line Not Evenings	Fratton

Gallery

The crossing gates descend
An up train departing
Looking east from the High Street footbridge
Cosham Station in August 1969.

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

References

^ R.V.J. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
^ Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 26C. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
^ Table 123, 158, 165, 186 National Rail timetable, May 2020

External links

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

50°50′31″N 1°04′03″W / 50.84194°N 1.06750°W / 50.84194; -1.06750

[1] R.V.J. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.

[2] Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 26C. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.

[3] Table 123, 158, 165, 186 National Rail timetable, May 2020

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