Portsmouth Harbour railway station
Railway station in Portsmouth, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Portsmouth Harbour railway station is a railway station in Portsmouth, England. It is situated beside Gunwharf Quays in the city's harbour, and is an important transport terminal, with a bus interchange and ferry services to Gosport and the Isle of Wight. The station currently has four platforms in use: numbered 1, 3, 4 and 5. It is managed by South Western Railway. Platform 2 is no longer in use, having been decommissioned in the early 1990s following major repair and refurbishment work to the pier that the platforms sit on.[1] The station is located adjacent to Portsmouth Harbour between the Gunwharf Quays shopping centre and the Historic Dockyard. Unusually for a mainline railway station, it is built over water as the station was originally constructed on wooden piles, which were later replaced by iron supports.[2]
General information | |
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Location | Portsmouth, Hampshire, England |
Grid reference | SU629000 |
Managed by | South Western Railway |
Platforms | 5 (4 in use) |
Other information | |
Station code | PMH |
Classification | DfT category C1 |
History | |
Opened | 2 October 1876 |
Original company | Portsmouth and Ryde Joint Railway |
Pre-grouping | Portsmouth and Ryde Joint Railway |
Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 2.101 million |
Interchange | 0.188 million |
2019/20 | 2.036 million |
Interchange | 0.121 million |
2020/21 | 0.540 million |
Interchange | 14,576 |
2021/22 | 1.455 million |
Interchange | 41,024 |
2022/23 | 1.747 million |
Interchange | 12,920 |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |