Bentley railway station (Hampshire)

For the station in South Yorkshire, see Bentley railway station (South Yorkshire).

Bentley railway station serves the village of Bentley in Hampshire, England. It is situated on the Alton Line, between Farnham and Alton. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway.

Bentley (Hampshire)
Bentley railway station
General information
Location	Bentley, East Hampshire England
Coordinates	51.181°N 0.868°W / 51.181; -0.868
Grid reference	SU792430
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BTY
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	July 1854
Passengers
2019/20	0.132 million
2020/21	20,640
2021/22	64,764
2022/23	82,486
2023/24	98,966
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station in 1963

Bordon Light Railway
Alton line to Alton│to Aldershot Bentley Blacknest Road Kingsley Halt Binsted Road Longmoor Military Railway White Hill Road Bordon

The village of Bentley and the hamlet of Isington are roughly the same distance from the station.

History

Bentley was the northern terminus of the Bentley and Bordon Light Railway, built in 1905 to serve the military camp at Bordon. Built with assistance of the British Army, the line closed to passengers in 1957 (remaining open to serve traffic to the Longmoor Military Railway in times of emergency) and closed to all traffic in 1966; the track was lifted later that same year.

In June 2009, the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) issued a report (Connecting Communities: Expanding Access to the Rail Network), which proposed the reinstatement of the line between Bentley and Bordon, as one of 20 schemes that are recommended for further consultation. 14 of these are reinstatements of lines closed in the Beeching cuts.

Services

Trains operate between Alton and London Waterloo, typically every 30 minutes in each direction, every day of the week. However, as Bentley is the least used station on the line, generally speaking alternate trains omit the stop at Bentley, meaning it has an hourly service. Faster services to London also pass through, but do not stop.

Despite the station having two platforms, the majority of the trains stop at, or pass through platform 1. Platform 2 is only used during peak hours or on Sundays, when the station is used as a passing loop.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Farnham		South Western Railway Alton Line		Alton
	Disused railways
Terminus		British Rail Southern Region Bordon Light Railway		Kingsley Halt

External links

• Train times and station information for Bentley railway station (Hampshire) from National Rail