Southampton Airport Parkway railway station

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 mi 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.

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 (CrossCountry)
 * 1 tpd to Westbury (GWR)
 * 1 tpd to Portsmouth Harbour via Southampton Central (GWR)
 * 2 tpd to Brighton (Southern)