Parkstone railway station

Parkstone railway station serves the Parkstone area of Poole in Dorset, England. The platform sign used to say "Parkstone (for Sandbanks)".

Parkstone
Location	Parkstone, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole England
Grid reference	SZ037915
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	PKS
Classification	DfT category E
History
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
15 June 1874	Opened
Passengers
2015/16	0.232 million
2016/17	0.247 million
2017/18	0.237 million
2018/19	0.234 million
2019/20	0.207 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station is operated by South Western Railway and is served by both the Weymouth express and the Poole stopping services. It is 111 miles 76 chains (180.2 km) down the line from London Waterloo.

The station is able to accommodate trains of up to five coaches; longer trains only open the doors in the first four or five coaches depending on the type of unit operating the service.

It was served by the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway line from Bath Green Park to Bournemouth West from 1874 until the Beeching Axe in 1966.

Until 1967 a branch goods line ran from here to the George Jennings South Western Pottery. The line extended from the Pottery to Salterns Pier, on the northern shores of Poole Harbour, until 1922.

The line between Bournemouth and Weymouth was electrified in 1988 using the standard British Rail Southern Region system of a third rail with 750 Volts direct current.