Southampton Airport Parkway railway station

50°57′01″N 1°21′48″W

Southampton Airport Parkway
The station looking northwards in February 2012
General information
Location	Eastleigh, Borough of Eastleigh England
Grid reference	SU448170
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SOA
Classification	DfT category C1
Key dates
30 October 1929	Opened as Atlantic Park Hostel Halt
Unknown Date	Closed
1 April 1966	Reopened as Southampton Airport
29 September 1986	Renamed Southampton Parkway for Southampton (Eastleigh) Airport
29 May 1994	Renamed Southampton Airport Parkway
Passengers
2019/20	1.593 million
Interchange	0.146 million
2020/21	0.233 million
Interchange	29,456
2021/22	0.780 million
Interchange	74,861
2022/23	1.079 million
Interchange	95,308
2023/24	1.217 million
Interchange	0.104 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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West Coastway Line to Brighton and Portsmouth Fareham to Gosport Line Fareham Wessex Main Line to Bristol via Salisbury M27 motorway Sprat and Winkle Line to Andover Knowle Halt Romsey Meon Valley Railway to Alton Bishops Waltham Swanwick Durley Halt Botley Chandlers Ford River Hamble South West Main Line to London Waterloo Hedge End A27 road Eastleigh Bursledon Eastleigh Works Hamble Hamble fuel terminal Southampton Airport Parkway Netley Hospital Line Netley M27 motorway Sholing A27 road Woolston Swaythling Bitterne Portswood (1861–66) River Itchen St Denys Northam Road (1839–40) Northam TMD Northam Southampton Tunnel Southampton West End (1847–95) Southampton Terminus Southampton Central Eastern Docks Town Quay Millbrook Central Docks Western Docks Container Port Nursling Redbridge Fawley Refinery River Test Fawley A35 road Hythe Totton Marchwood Port Marchwood Ashurst (New Forest) Beaulieu Road Lymington Pier Ferry to Yarmouth IoW Brockenhurst Lymington Town   Southampton and Ampress Works Halt Dorchester Railway to Dorchester via Ringwood South West Main Line to Bournemouth

Station entrance in 2024

Southampton Airport Parkway is a railway station on the South West Main Line, located in the south of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England. It is located 74 miles 66 chains (120.4 km) down the line from London Waterloo and is adjacent to Southampton Airport.

The station has two platforms. One is on the western side with the line running northbound towards London Waterloo, via Winchester, Basingstoke, Woking and Clapham Junction; services via Basingstoke to Reading, Birmingham and the North West also leave from here. The southbound platform facilitates services towards Southampton, Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Weymouth.

History

The station opened with different structures as the Atlantic Park Hostel Halt in 1929, built by the Southern Railway and closed before the 1950s. In 1966, many of the present parts were built and services were resumed by British Rail as Southampton Airport (1966). The station was later renamed Southampton Parkway (1986) and Southampton Airport Parkway (1994).

Facilities

Designed as a park-and-ride or Parkway station, facilities available include a ticket office, toilets, coffee shop, waiting area, and car parking. The station was upgraded in 2010 with a new footbridge with lifts to improve accessibility for disabled people costing £2 million as part of a wider £7 million investment in the airport. Additionally, lobbying was done to keep the station as a stop on all major routes in the service pattern, which was successful.^[1]

Services

• 2 tph to London Waterloo (South Western Railway)
• 1 tph to Winchester (South Western Railway)
• 4 tph to Bournemouth via Southampton Central, of which
  • 1 tph continue to Weymouth via Poole (South Western Railway)
  • 1 tph continues to Poole only (South Western Railway)
• 1 tph to Romsey via Chandler's Ford (South Western Railway)
• 1 tph to Salisbury via Southampton Central and Romsey (South Western Railway)
• 1 tph to Manchester Piccadilly via Reading & Birmingham New Street^[2] (CrossCountry)
• 1 tpd to Westbury (GWR)
• 1 tpd to Portsmouth Harbour via Southampton Central (GWR)
• 2 tpd to Brighton (Southern)

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Winchester		CrossCountry Bournemouth - Manchester		Southampton Central
Winchester		South Western Railway London - Weymouth		Southampton Central
Eastleigh		South Western Railway London - Poole		Southampton Central
		South Western Railway Romsey to Salisbury		Swaythling
Eastleigh		Southern Brighton - Southampton Peak Times Only		Southampton Central
Eastleigh		Great Western Railway Cardiff - Portsmouth via Southampton Peak Times Only		Southampton Central