Pinewood Halt railway station

Pinewood Halt
The site of the station in 1967
General information
Location	Hermitage, West Berkshire England
Grid reference	SU510736
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
11 September 1933	Opened
4 August 1942	Closed
8 March 1943	Re-opened
10 September 1962	Closed

Pinewood Halt railway station was a station on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway in England. It served the northern parts of Hermitage and Oare both in Berkshire. The halt was opened on 11 September 1933 in the hope of increasing passenger traffic. It closed in 1962.

There was a single platform and shelter but an additional platform, also with a shelter, was later built with the addition of a passing loop. The station itself had no goods facilities,^[1] but a couple of sidings were built to the north east of the station - accessed via the smaller arch in the picture - to serve the brickworks near the site.

Evidence of the trackwork for the brickworks sidings can still be seen, although these had been built privately and they predated the halt.^[2]

51°27′33″N 1°16′02″W / 51.4591°N 1.2673°W / 51.4591; -1.2673