Mottisfont & Dunbridge railway station

51°02′02″N 1°32′49″W

Mottisfont & Dunbridge
General information
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
2018/19	33,522
2019/20	26,682
2020/21	9,250
2021/22	23,726
2022/23	24,412
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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]

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]

The station is one of 20 covered by the Three Rivers Community Rail partnership.^[3]

According to station usage statistics, Mottisfont & Dunbridge is the second least frequently used station in Hampshire, with only Beaulieu Road having fewer passengers.

Services

The station is managed by South Western Railway, which runs an hourly service between Romsey and Salisbury via Southampton Central.^[4] This also runs on Sundays, at a two-hourly frequency.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dean		South Western Railway Salisbury–Romsey (via Southampton)		Romsey

References

1. Daniels, Gerald David; Dench, Leslie Alan (May 1973) [1964]. Passengers No More (2nd ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 16. ISBN 0-7110-0438-2. OCLC 2554248. 1513 CEC 573.
2. "South Western Railway welcomes three stations to its family". www.southwesternrailway.com. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
3. "Three Rivers Community Rail partnership". www.threeriversrail.com. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
4. Table 158, National Rail timetable, May 2016.

External links

• Media related to Mottisfont & Dunbridge railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Train times and station information for Mottisfont & Dunbridge railway station from National Rail
• Local Rail Information from the Three Rivers Community Rail partnership