Disused railway lines and closed stations in Berkshire

33 miles of disused railway
19 closed stations
37 stations open today
8 named lost lines

Berkshire has 33 miles of disused railway and 19 closed stations, against 37 stations still open today. That is 0.5 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the Lambourn Valley Branch, with 12 miles of its route inside Berkshire.

See Berkshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 33 miles of lost railway in Berkshire break down as 30 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 1.7 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 1.3 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Berkshire

8 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Berkshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Lambourn Valley Branch	12
Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway	11
Newbury and Winchester Line	2.2
RAF Welford	2.1
Coley Branch Line	1.6
Windsor Branch	0.9
Padworth Oil Terminal DISUSED	0.7
Staines and West Drayton Railway	0.7

Closed railway stations in Berkshire

All 19 closed and former stations in Berkshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Berkshire

37 stations in Berkshire still have a train service. The busiest are Reading (14.3 million a year), Slough (5.5 million a year), Maidenhead (4.9 million a year), Wokingham (1.9 million a year) and Bracknell (1.8 million a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Greater London.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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