| Theale | |
| Symbol Location: | gb |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Borough: | Theale, West Berkshire |
| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 51.433°N -1.075°W |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Manager: | Great Western Railway |
| Platforms: | 3 |
| Code: | THE |
| Classification: | DfT category E |
| Original: | Great Western Railway |
| Postgroup: | Great Western Railway |
| Opened: | 21 December 1847 |
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
Theale railway station serves the village of Theale, England. It is measured from .
The station is served by Great Western Railway local services between and, limited semi-fast peak services between and London and a limited semi-fast service between London and,,, and .
The railway station was opened on 21 December 1847 on the first portion of what would become the Berks and Hants Line between and .[1]
Theale has three platforms. Platforms 1 and 2 serve the up and down main line, and platform 3 is a former goods loop upgraded to passenger standards in 2011.[2]
Plans to upgrade facilities at the station were announced in 2013 by Network Rail and GWR (including new lifts, a new pedestrian entrance and accessible footbridge, extra car parking, and a new ticket office), but the £2.9 million project has been delayed several times and by summer 2016 was running more than three years behind schedule.[3] The upgrade project was resumed in 2021.[4]
The typical off-peak service at the station in trains per hour is: