Burnham railway station


Burnham railway station serves Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, although the station is in Haymill, a ward of western Slough, about half a mile to the south of Burnham proper. Originally in Buckinghamshire, the station moved into the county of Berkshire when county boundaries were realigned in 1974. It is down the line from and is situated between to the east and to the west.
The station is served by local services operated by Great Western Railway. The station is on the Great Western Main Line, the original line of the Great Western Railway. From opening on 1 July 1899, the station was named Burnham Beeches, becoming Burnham from 1 September 1930 to 5 May 1975, and then purely Burnham, although National Rail variously refers to the station as Burnham and Burnham . The station was closed as a First World War economy measure from 2 April 1917 to 3 March 1919.
In preparation for the introduction of Elizabeth line services, the operation of the station was transferred to TfL Rail on behalf of Transport for London at the end of 2017.

Location

The station is situated about half a mile south of Burnham Village and around a mile north of the village of Cippenham and is the closest station to Slough Trading Estate.

Facilities

Burnham Railway Station has a fully staffed ticketing office which is open 7 days a week. There are three self-service ticket machines, two at the station entrance and one on the platform. The machines accept cash, debit and credit cards.
The station has a waiting room which is open during ticket office opening hours. Seating is also available under canopies on each platform.
Car parking facilities are around 100 metres away, in a car park operated by APCOA. Parking permits are sold to ticket holders individually from the station, or season ticket holders may purchase tickets from APCOA.

Services

Since December 2019, Burnham Station is served by TfL Rail Class 345 trains towards London Paddington and Reading.
Burnham has an island platform – platform 1 has services to Reading and platform 2 has services to London Paddington. Service frequency is four TfL trains per hour in each direction during weekday peak times, two per hour at other times. A few additional services are operated by Great Western Railway.
Unusually for a station on the Great Western Main Line, Burnham was built with platforms that serve only the relief lines, which makes it vulnerable to losing services when engineering work closes the relief lines and leaves trains only on the main lines. Consequently, the station is frequently served by a replacement bus service at night.