Mottisfont & Dunbridge railway station

Mottisfont & Dunbridge railway station serves the village of Dunbridge in Hampshire, England. It is on the Wessex Main Line, 84 miles 21 chains (135.6 km) from London Waterloo. It is the closest station to Mottisfont Abbey and the village of Mottisfont, and was renamed Mottisfont & Dunbridge in 2006 to reflect this, having been previously known simply as Dunbridge. Mottisfont previously had a station of its own on the Andover to Romsey line, known as the Sprat and Winkle Line, but this closed on 7 September 1964 under the Beeching Axe.[1]

Mottisfont & Dunbridge
LocationDunbridge, Test Valley
England
Grid referenceSU318261
Managed bySouth Western Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeDBG
ClassificationDfT category F2
Key dates
1 March 1847Opened as Dunbridge
15 May 1988Renamed Mottisfont Dunbridge
29 May 1994Renamed Dunbridge
2006Renamed Mottisfont & Dunbridge
Passengers
2015/16 29,792
2016/17 29,778
2017/18 31,662
2018/19 33,522
2019/20 26,682
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Since 9 December 2007, a new service has served Mottisfont & Dunbridge. It runs from Salisbury to Southampton Central, via Romsey. South Western Railway operates the service using two-car Class 158 units. In consequence, Mottisfont & Dunbridge now has a roughly hourly service, a great improvement over the previous frequency. As a result of this, Great Western Railway no longer serves the station, although it continued to manage the station, and the station still carried First Great Western branding. In April 2020, the management of the station was transferred to South Western Railway.[2]

According to station usage statistics, Mottisfont & Dunbridge is the second least frequently used station in Hampshire, with only Beaulieu Road having fewer passengers.

Services

The station is managed by South Western Railway, which runs an hourly service between Romsey and Salisbury via Southampton Central.[3] This also runs on Sundays, at a two-hourly frequency.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Dean   South Western Railway
Salisbury–Romsey (via Southampton)		   Romsey

References
  1. Daniels, Gerald David; Dench, Leslie Alan (May 1973) [1964]. Passengers No More (2nd ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 16. ISBN 0-7110-0438-2. OCLC 2554248. 1513 CEC 573.
  2. "South Western Railway welcomes three stations to its family". www.southwesternrailway.com. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  3. Table 158, National Rail timetable, May 2016.


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