Rowlands Castle railway station

Rowlands Castle
Rowlands Castle
Location
Place	Rowland's Castle
Local authority	East Hampshire
Grid reference	SU734108
Operations
Station code	RLN
Managed by	South Western Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
	Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections; from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.111 million
2015/16	0.120 million
2016/17	0.120 million
2017/18	0.126 million
2018/19	0.131 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1 January 1859
	National Rail – UK railway stations
	Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Rowlands Castle from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.;

Rowlands Castle railway station serves the village of Rowland's Castle, Hampshire, England. It is located on the Portsmouth Direct Line, 63 miles 18 chains (101.8 km) down the line from London Waterloo via Woking.[1]

The station has two tracks, and two platforms, and the standard service is hourly to both Portsmouth and Waterloo.

The station was once one of three between Petersfield and Havant, but is the only one to have enjoyed a regular service. Havant New, to the south, was a temporary station built during an inter-company dispute - the Battle of Havant; Woodcroft Halt, to the north, was open for a few years round World War 2, mainly for service personnel.

Formerly there were goods and coal sidings trailing off the Up Line at the Petersfield end of the station. There was only one crossover between the two running lines, which meant that goods trains that arrived from the Petersfield direction (usually on the 0450 Goods Woking to Rowland's Castle) had to "set-back" into the headshunt and "fly shunt" (i.e. run off) wagons into the sidings rather than propelling them. This was a skilled movement and not normally permitted by the Rule Book. There was also a siding trailing off the up line, Havant side of the station, serving a brickworks adjacent to the remains of the Castle.

The station is staffed from 6:30 - 9:30 in the morning. At all other times, people are served by ticket machines.

Services

As of May 2019, the current off-peak service in trains per hour is:

1 tph to London Waterloo via Guildford
1 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea (all stations)

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station
Petersfield		South Western Railway Portsmouth Direct Line	Havant
	Historical railways
Woodcroft Halt Line open, station closed		Southern Railway Portsmouth Direct Line	Havant Line and station open

Gallery

A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Rowlands Castle railway station

References

Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 26B. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

Train times and station information for Rowlands Castle railway station from National Rail

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[1] Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 26B. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)