page_title: Fareham railway station
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Fareham railway station / Description
caption_attribution_description: Pre Grouping railway junction around Havant &amp; Portsmouth
context_page_description: Fareham railway station is on the West Coastway Line situated about 0.62 miles from the town of Fareham in Hampshire, England. It is 84 miles 21 chains down the line from London Waterloo. It is 5.36 miles from Botley Station, 3.18 miles from Portchester and 3.7 miles from Swanwick.
context_section_description: Fareham station is located on the West Coastway Line which runs between Brighton and Southampton Central.  It is now served by South Western Railway, Southern and Great Western Railway.
  The station has three platforms:
  Platform 1 is the main up platform and serves Southampton Central, Cardiff Central and London Waterloo via Winchester and Basingstoke.
  Platform 2 is a bay platform and has very little planned use, however it is periodically used when late running Great Western and Southern services are terminated short of destination or during engineering works. It was formerly the main up platform, before the stone arched bridge over the A27 immediately south of the station was replaced, and the opportunity taken to ease the radius of the curve from Portsmouth by aligning the route into the current platform 1.
  Platform 3 is the down platform for services towards Portsmouth Harbour, Brighton and London Victoria. The bay platform for services to Alton via the closed Meon Valley Line was on the opposite (car park) side of this platform, a short siding is all that remains at the north end of platform 3.
caption: A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Fareham railway station
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