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Staines railway station is a railway station on the Waterloo to Reading line, and the junction station between that line and the Windsor line, in southern England to the west of London. The station serves the town of Staines-upon-Thames, in the county of Surrey. It is managed by the South West Trains train operating company, who also provide all services stopping at the station, which include services from London Waterloo to , and . The station is now the only one serving the town of Staines, but historically it was one of three, with the others being , on the Windsor line, and , the terminus of a now-closed branch from . To distinguish it from the others, the current station was previously known as Staines Central, Staines Junction and Staines Old. Although the town of Staines changed its name to Staines-upon-Thames in 2012, the railway station has not been renamed to match this.〔 - pp.37〕 == History == The station was opened on 22 August 1848 by the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway, as part of its line from Richmond to . The line was further extended from Datchet to on 1 December 1849, by which time the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway had become part of the London and South Western Railway (LSWR). The junction at Staines, together with the line to was authorised in 1853 and built by the Staines, Wokingham and Woking Junction Railway, opening as far as on 4 June 1856 and onwards to Wokingham on the 9 July 1856. From the outset, the line was leased to, and operated by, the LSWR, who purchased it outright in 1878. From Wokingham, LSWR trains continued to using running powers over the South Eastern Railway (SER).〔The Times, Thursday 24 August 1848〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Railways at Windsor )〕〔Mitchell, Vic and Smith, Keith (1989) Branch lines around Ascot, 1st ed, Middleton Press, Midhurst〕〔Maggs, Colin C. (1993) Branch Lines of Berkshire, 1st ed, Alan Sutton Publishing, Stroud〕 In the grouping of railways in 1923, both the LSWR and SER became part of the Southern Railway. In 1930 the Windsor line was electrified on the third rail system at a nominal 660 volts DC. The line towards Reading was electrified as far as in 1937, and throughout by 1939.〔 The Southern Railway was nationalised along with the rest of the railway network in 1948 and incorporated into British Railways. Following the privatisation of British Rail in the 1990s, the operation of Staines station and the trains serving it were transferred to the South West Trains train operating company, owned by the Stagecoach group, whilst ownership and management of the track and infrastructure passed to Railtrack and, subsequently, Network Rail. A refurbishment of the station was completed in November 2008 with ticket barriers on both platforms, and a renovated ticket office with a SHERE ticket machine. Wheelchair access to both platforms was provided by the construction of a new footbridge, with lifts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Staines railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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