Hinton Admiral railway station
Hinton Admiral railway station is a station serving the villages of Bransgore and Hinton and the seaside town of Highcliffe on the Hampshire/Dorset border in southern England. It is 101 miles 5 chains (162.6 km) down the line from London Waterloo.
Hinton Admiral | |
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This view is from the road bridge. From the bridge south, the road is called Hinton Wood Avenue. To the north of the bridge, it is Station Road. | |
| General information | |
| Location | Hinton Admiral, District of New Forest England |
| Grid reference | SZ202948 |
| Managed by | South Western Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | HNA |
| Classification | DfT category E |
| History | |
| Original company | Bournemouth Direct Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London and South Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 6 March 1888 | Opened as Hinton |
| 1 May 1888 | Renamed Hinton Admiral for Highcliffe-on-Sea |
| ? | Renamed Hinton Admiral |
| Passengers | |
| 2018/19 | 0.164 million |
| 2019/20 | 0.147 million |
| 2020/21 | 31,448 |
| 2021/22 | 91,230 |
| 2022/23 | 0.115 million |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
The station is on the stretch of line opened in 1888 between Brockenhurst and Christchurch to provide a direct line from London to Bournemouth, bypassing the original "Castleman's Corkscrew" line via Ringwood and reducing that line to a backwater.
There is no village as such named Hinton Admiral. The station was originally named Hinton after the nearby village, but shortly after being opened was renamed Hinton Admiral to share its name with Hinton Admiral House, the residence of Sir George Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick who owned the land on which the station was built.
The station was host to a Southern Railway camping coach from 1938 to 1939. A camping coach was also positioned here by the Southern Region from 1954 to 1960, the coach was replaced from 1961 to 1965 by a Pullman camping coach.