Facilities
Access to the station is from the bridge on Borough Road that crosses the railway line. At road level, there is a small car park, a taxi rank/shop and the entrance to the station, which contains the ticket office. In order to reach the two platforms (Platform One is for Derby, Nottingham, London and the North, Platform Two is for Tamworth, Birmingham and the South), passengers descend a broad staircase, one of the few remaining parts of the old station, which was mostly demolished in the early 1970s.
Only a single building now stands at platform level (Burton is an island station, where the tracks run around a single platform), and this building incorporates a waiting room, toilets and a despatcher's office. Timetable information is available from destination boards and real-time customer information screens with automated train announcements.
The station has the PlusBus scheme where train and bus tickets can be bought together at a saving.
Read more about this topic: Burton-on-Trent Railway Station
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