Iver railway station
Iver 
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| Location | |
| Place | Richings Park |
| Local authority | District of South Bucks |
| Coordinates | 51°30′32″N 0°30′25″W / 51.509°N 0.507°WCoordinates: 51°30′32″N 0°30′25″W / 51.509°N 0.507°W |
| Grid reference | TQ037799 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | IVR |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.156 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.186 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.194 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.225 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.226 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| 1 December 1924 | Station opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Iver from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Iver railway station is a railway station situated in the village of Richings Park, near Iver, Buckinghamshire, England. It is the first station on the Great Western Main Line located outside Greater London.
The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway which opened on 4 June 1838, however no station was provided at Iver until 1924; Iver station opened on 1 December that year.
This section of line is also where the first trials of the North Star were held, commemorated by a public house in nearby Thorney.
William Stallybrass, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, died in a railway accident when he stepped out of a moving train near the station in 1948. He was almost blind at the time.
The station is served by local services operated by Great Western Railway between Paddington and Reading & Oxford. These call every half-hour on weekdays & Saturdays. There is no Sunday service.
The line through Iver is due to be electrified for the new Crossrail service starting in 2018 which provide Iver with cross-London services. This will mean oyster cards can be used at Iver from 2018 and all stations to Reading will be able to use oyster cards from 2018.
The station is also potentially the site of a new Heathrow Hub railway station which would see the station greatly expanded with 12 platforms and serving as the main interchange between Heathrow Airport, Crossrail, the Great Western Main Line and High Speed 2.
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