Fratton railway station
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| Fratton | |
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| Location | |
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| Place | Fratton |
| Local authority | Portsmouth |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Operations | |
| Station code | FTN |
| Managed by | South West Trains |
| Platforms in use | 3 |
| Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail | |
| Annual rail passenger usage | |
| 2004/05 * | 1.246 million |
| 2005/06 * | 1.289 million |
| 2006/07 * | 1.369 million |
| 2007/08 * | 1.465 million |
| History | |
| Original company | London, Brighton and South Coast Railway |
| Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
| 1 July 1885 | Opened (Fratton) |
| 4 July 1905 | Renamed (Fratton and Southsea) |
| 1 December 1921 | Renamed (Fratton) |
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | |
| * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Fratton from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. | |
Fratton railway station is a railway station in Portsmouth, located near Fratton Park, the stadium of association football (soccer) club Portsmouth F.C..
It is located on the Portsmouth Direct Line which runs between London (London Waterloo) and Portsmouth (Portsmouth Harbour).
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[edit] Facilities
The station includes a staffed ticket office, toilets, a light refreshment facility, car parking and a taxi rank. The three passenger platforms are connected via a footbridge. It is also the station referred to in the famous Portsmouth FC song: 'You'll never make the station'.
Platforms 2 and 3 serve Portsmouth & Southsea and Portsmouth Harbour, with platform 1 serving all other destinations.
[edit] History
The railway line through Fratton was planned by the Brighton and Chichester Railway as part of the Chichester to Portsmouth Branch Railway, approved in 1845.[1] The line was completed in 1847, the Brighton and Chichester railway merging with several other companies to form the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1846, who went on to operate the line. Fratton was once the junction for the Southsea Railway which closed in 1914.
[edit] Portsmouth Area Resignalling (PARS)
The Portsmouth Area Resignalling project was instigated in late 2006, aiming to improve the flexibility of the track layout in the Fratton area. Platform 1 became the Up Main, Platform 3 became the Down Main with Platform 2 as a bidirectional through platform (although the main function of platform 2 is down line trains). Prior to the project trains could not reverse south to north at Fratton in service.
The work, scheduled by Network Rail to take place between 23 December 2006 and 4 February 2007, was subject to a massive overrun. The works were first extended six weeks into mid-March 2007 but in late February it became obvious that there were major problems with the new equipment being installed by the contractor Siemens AG. See BBC story Rail repairs overrun indefinitely
Until 1 April 2007 there were only three trains per hour between Fratton and Portsmouth Harbour with the remaining services terminating at Fratton and passengers using a replacement bus service. After the 2nd of April 2007 there was five trains per hour running between Fratton and Portsmouth - three South West Trains services, one Southern service and one First Great Western service with some services still terminating at Fratton with passengers forced to change to continue their journey. The "six week project" was eventually completed in October 2007 - some ten months after it started.
[edit] New DDA compliant footbridge planned
A new footbridge is planned linking the island platform (pltforms 2 and 3) with the Up Main platform (1). This will have stairs and lifts to allow disabled users full access to all trains, with lifts designed for easy wheelchair use.
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Fratton railway station from National Rail
 Station approach |
 Same building looking from platform |
 Up platform |
 Marshalling yard |
[edit] References
- ^ "Hampshire County Council - Railways of Hampshire". 29 January 2009. http://www3.hants.gov.uk/museum/railways-of-hampshire.htm. Retrieved on 31 March 2009.
