page_title: Taplow railway station
section_title: Original station
hierarchical_section_title: Taplow railway station / History / Original station
caption_attribution_description: English: The entrance to the first Maidenhead railway station, which was actually at Taplow as it was the temporary terminus of the Great Western Railway until the Maidenhead Bridge was build across the River Thames a little further west.
context_page_description: Taplow railway station serves the village of Taplow in Buckinghamshire, England. It is 22 miles 39 chains down the line from London Paddington and is situated between Burnham to the east and Maidenhead to the west.
  The station has been served by local services operated by TfL Rail since December 2019. Currently all eastbound trains terminate at London Paddington, and all westbound services terminate at Reading. The station will be served by Elizabeth line services from an unspecified date in 2021 with services to Abbey Wood via Central London.
context_section_description: The first station was opened on 4 June 1838 as Maidenhead (referred to as Maidenhead Riverside in some publications). The station was the terminus of the Great Western Railway for just over a year until the opening of Maidenhead Railway Bridge and the line to Twyford on 1 July 1839. The station was renamed Maidenhead and Taplow in August 1854. It was constructed of wood, and situated west of the skew bridge that carries the railway over the Bath Road (the modern A4), near grid reference SU909812.
  With the opening of the present Maidenhead station ​1 ¹⁄₂ miles to the west on 1 November 1871, Maidenhead and Taplow station was renamed Taplow; it was closed less than a year later on 1 September 1872, when a new Taplow station was opened at its current location ​ ¹⁄₄ mile to the east. As with Burnham station, the actual station is a significant distance south of the village that it takes its name from.
caption: The entrance to the original station (in 2016)
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