2012 Games train tickets

The torch will pass or stop at the following stations served by South West Trains:

Exeter - 20 May
Bristol - 22 May
Windsor– Egham – Ascot – Bracknell – Reading - 10 July
Reading– Basingstoke – Winchester – Andover – Salisbury - 11 July
Salisbury – Dorchester – Weymouth - 12 July
Weymouth – Wool – Wareham – Poole – Bournemouth

-13 July
Bournemouth – Christchurch - Brockenhurst – Lymington – Isle of Wight - Southampton - 14 July
Southampton – Fareham – Portsmouth - 15 July
Portsmouth – Petersfield - 16 July
Dorking – Godalming – Guildford - 20 July
Wimbledon and Wandsworth area - 23 July
Kingston – Richmond – Hounslow  -24 July
Central London and Hyde Park - 26 July

Look out for events at these locations to be announced later on http://www.london2012.com/olympic-torch-relay-map.   

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We will be stopping some longer distance services additionally at Wimbledon before and after the Tennis sessions.

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A dedicated bus link will operate from Windsor & Eton Riverside station to Eton Dorney.
A normal train service will operate between London Waterloo and Windsor & Eton Riverside supplemented by longer trains at weekends as well as some early morning additional services.

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OLYMPIC CYCLING ROAD RACE 28-29 July
This event will pass near many of our suburban stations on the route between London and Box Hill.
We will be stopping our Waterloo to Dorking services additionally at Box Hill & Westhumble station over the entire weekend and operating longer trains.
Please note that Box Hill station is outside the Travelcard zone area and passengers travelling to Box Hill must have tickets valid for travel to that station.
Due to the expected high numbers travelling, bicycles will not be allowed on any South West Trains or Southern services on services via Epsom during this event, and please be aware that access to and from stations and car parks along the route will be restricted during the  event.

OLYMPIC CYCLING TIME TRIAL 1 August
The nearest station to this event is Hampton Court, however Hampton Wick, Teddington and Strawberry Hill stations are also close by and may provide a better location to watch this event.
We will be operating the normal service to these stations during this event as well as providing some additional services between Waterloo and Hampton Court.   

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The normal service will operate to and from Weymouth during games-time. CrossCountry trains will be operating some additional services between Bournemouth and Weymouth.

Please note, that services to and from Weymouth are likely to be extremely busy and it may be necessary to institute queuing arrangements at Bournemouth and Weymouth at busy times. 

Park-and-ride is the recommended option for spectators attending these Games events from outside of the Weymouth area. See london2012.com/travel for further details of travel options to Games events in Weymouth.

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All the station building works, including the Waterloo Balcony Scheme, the station rebuilding at Basingstoke, and the Grant Road entrance redevelopment at Clapham Junction are due for completion before the Games. 

 Network Rail’s major schemes such as the new East London Line platforms at Clapham Junction and other major renewals across our network, are also planned to be completed before the Games.

 Unless unexpected problems or failures of vital equipment require emergency repairs, we are expecting to have all stations and lines open to run the best possible service during the Games.

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We have arranged with the Olympic Delivery Authority and the Department for Transport to alter some late evening services after 2330. The following trains will run later than normal: 

• 2338 London Waterloo to Reading will start at 2350 and the connection from Ascot to Farnham will be held.
• 2340 London Waterloo to Salisbury will start at 2355.
• 2345 London Waterloo to Portsmouth Harbour will start at 0005.
• 0005 London Waterloo to Bournemouth will start at 0030.

 An extra train will run at 0038 from London Waterloo to Staines, and the 0050 London Waterloo to Portsmouth Harbour will run every evening of the Games.

 Some extra services will run on Sunday mornings where the normal timetable would start too late for people to travel to events.

We will normally be unable to run overnight trains after the 0105 from London Waterloo to Southampton. Our trains still need to be cleaned and maintained overnight and we will be using all available staff to run the planned service.

We are looking at all the cultural events and we will run longer trains to serve them where we can. Because we already plan to make maximum use of our trains, the normal timetable will run except for the extra services shown above.

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For the water sport events at Eton Dorney (near Windsor) we will run extra early morning weekend services and longer trains at other times. 

For the Olympic Tennis at Wimbledon we will stop some of our main line services at Wimbledon, as we do for the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

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We can only run five-car trains to and from Weymouth because there is a limited power supply. We are still looking at ways of running extra trains - either electric or diesel - to Weymouth at peak times. Other operators will be running longer trains and a few extra trains to and from Weymouth.

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We are proud to be an official supplier of Skandia Team GBR – the British Sailing Team for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Great Britain is the world’s top Olympic sailing nation with our sailors topping the medal tables at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics.

Sailing is recognised today as one of the UK’s most successful sports in terms of medals won in all international events.