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
Location	Dunbridge, Test Valley England
Grid reference	SU318261
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	DBG
Classification	DfT category F2
Key dates
1 March 1847	Opened as Dunbridge
15 May 1988	Renamed Mottisfont Dunbridge
29 May 1994	Renamed Dunbridge
2006	Renamed 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.