Hinton Admiral railway station

Hinton Admiral railway station is a station serving the villages of Bransgore and Hinton and the town of Highcliffe on the Hampshire/Dorset border in southern England. It is 101 miles 5 chains (162.6 km) down the line from London Waterloo.

This building has a plaque on the wall indicating a construction date of 1886. The station has a small car park.

Hinton Admiral
This view is from the road bridge. From the bridge south, the road is called Hinton Wood Avenue. To the north of the bridge, it is Station Road.
LocationHinton Admiral, District of New Forest
England
Grid referenceSZ202948
Managed bySouth Western Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeHNA
ClassificationDfT category E
History
Original companyBournemouth Direct Railway
Pre-groupingLondon and South Western Railway
Post-groupingSouthern Railway
Key dates
6 March 1888Opened as Hinton[1]
1 May 1888Renamed Hinton Admiral for Highcliffe-on-Sea[1]
?Renamed Hinton Admiral[1]
Passengers
2015/16 0.167 million
2016/17 0.171 million
2017/18 0.167 million
2018/19 0.164 million
2019/20 0.147 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station is on the stretch of line opened in 1885 between Brockenhurst and Christchurch to provide a direct line from London to Bournemouth, bypassing the original "Castleman's Corkscrew" line via Ringwood and reducing that line to a backwater.

There is no village as such that is called Hinton Admiral. The village is called Hinton. The station principally serves the town of Highcliffe as Hinton itself is only a few houses. The station shares its name with Hinton Admiral house, the residence of Sir George Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick who owned the land that the station was built on.

The station was host to a Southern Railway camping coach from 1938 to 1939.[2] A camping coach was also positioned here by the Southern Region from 1954 to 1960, the coach was replaced from 1961 to 1965 by a Pullman camping coach.[3]

Services

The station is operated by South Western Railway and is served by the London Waterloo to Poole stopping services. The platforms are able to accommodate trains of up to five coaches (444 and 442 Stock) or six coaches (450 Stock), longer trains only open the doors in the first five or six coaches depending on the type of unit operating the service.

The basic service is provided by the hourly Waterloo to Poole stopping services each way (including Sundays). Extra trains call during the weekday business peaks, including through services to/from Weymouth.[4]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
New Milton   South Western Railway
London-Poole stopping services		   Christchurch

References
  1. Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  2. McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 33. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
  3. McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 59. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
  4. Table 158 National Rail timetable, May 2016

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