Trains to Taplow - Station Details and further Information on Taplow Train Services
Taplow train station is a train station in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, close to Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western from London Paddington, 22½ miles to the east, to Reading stations. The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway.
Key features of the station include the Victorian era ticket office, toilets and the aforementioned footbridge. Features installed during the Network SouthEast era includes a permit to travel machine installed on platform 4, all the existing passenger seating, station clocks, CCTV monitored help points and a CRT service information screen. Thames Trains Ltd. installed the LED 'next train indicators'. First Great Western has recently replaced the ticket machine, installed a new bike shelter on the east end of platform 1 and life-expired NSE-era signage. First Great Western have also refurbished the toilets, repainted the station doors, lamp posts, seats and the existing bike shelter in corporate First Group purple.
Also built into the main station building is a Victorian postbox on the platform 4 side, and a card-only BT payphone on the platform. Riviera Cars (taxi rank) and the Taplow Rail User's Group also occupy the main building. Only platforms 2 and 4 have OPO equipment. The island platform waiting room is usually closed from public use. According to First Great Western, the station has BTP 'Secure Station' accreditation. This is despite the station being in a somewhat remote countryside location.
There are 2 CCTV monitored car parks, both run by APCOA Parking UK Ltd. on behalf of First Great Western, one on the north side of the station and one on the south. Within the south car park is a small South Bucks recycling centre. To the east of the south car park is a large storage facility, where a portable ticket office is currently stored. Just outside the facility are leftover materials from the recent works. |