Cosham railway station

Cosham
View of the station in 2013
Location	Cosham, Portsmouth England
Grid reference	SU657051
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CSA
Classification	DfT category D
History
Opened	1 October 1848[1]
Original company	London and South Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Portsmouth and Ryde Joint Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Passengers
2016/17	0.882 million
2017/18	0.887 million
2018/19	0.925 million
2019/20	0.938 million
2020/21	0.263 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

v t Railways in the Portsmouth area
Legend
Portsmouth Direct Line to London Waterloo via Guildford West Coastway Line to Brighton & London Victoria West Coastway Line to Southampton Central Portchester Havant M27 Bedhampton Cosham A3(M) Farlington Halt A27 Portsbridge Creek HMNB Portsmouth Admiralty Line Hilsea Portsmouth & Southsea Fratton Portsmouth Harbour Southsea Railway 1885–1914 Gosport Ferry to Gosport Wightlink to Ryde Pier Head Jessie Road Bridge Halt Albert Road Bridge Halt East Southsea

Cosham railway station serves Cosham, a northern suburb of the city of Portsmouth, Hampshire in southern England. It is 90 miles 6 chains (90.08 miles, 144.96 km) from London Waterloo.^[2]

Opened in 1848 by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR), it is located on the West Coastway Line which runs between Brighton and Southampton. It is currently served by the South Western Railway, Southern, and Great Western Railway train operating companies.

The station used to have a small goods yard which served local freight trains around Portsmouth. Today all that remains is an old loading gauge, with the original site being built upon.

Services[]

Services at Cosham are operated by Southern, South Western Railway and Great Western Railway using Class 377, 444 and 450 EMUs and Class 165 and 166 DMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[3]

• 1 tph to London Waterloo via Basingstoke
• 1 tph to London Victoria via Horsham
• 1 tph to Brighton via Worthing
• 3 tph to Southampton Central
• 1 tph to Cardiff Central via Bristol Temple Meads
• 3 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea of which 2 continue to Portsmouth Harbour

The station is also served by a single daily service from London Waterloo to Southampton Central which runs directly to Cosham from Bedhampton.

During the evenings, most Great Western Railway services do not stop at Cosham.

Westward, the line through Cosham leads to Portchester and Fareham, eastward to a junction (part of the local "Railway Triangle") between lines leading south to Hilsea and Portsmouth and east to Bedhampton and Havant.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Portchester or Fareham		Southern West Coastway Line		Havant
Portchester		South Western Railway West Coastway Line		Hilsea
		South Western Railway Portsmouth Direct Line Limited Service		Bedhampton
Fareham		Great Western Railway West Coastway Line		Fratton
Portchester Limited Service				Havant Limited Service

Gallery[]

• 

  The crossing gates descend

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  An up train departing

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  Looking east from the High Street footbridge

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  Cosham Station in August 1969.

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  The view from the Knowlsey Road footbridge

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  Looking from the down towards the up platform

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  SR Merchant Navy Class 35028 Clan Line passing through Cosham Station

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  A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Cosham railway station

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cosham railway station.

• Train times and station information for Cosham railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 50°50′31″N 1°04′03″W / 50.84194°N 1.06750°W / 50.84194; -1.06750