| Holmwood | |
| Symbol Location: | gb |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Borough: | Beare Green, District of Mole Valley |
| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 51.181°N -0.321°W |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Manager: | Southern |
| Platforms: | 2 |
| Code: | HLM |
| Classification: | DfT category F1 |
| Opened: | 1 May 1867 |
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Holmwood railway station serves the villages of Beare Green and South Holmwood in Surrey, England, on the Sutton and Mole Valley Lines between and Horsham, 27miles from London Waterloo (although London-bound trains run to Victoria).[1]
All services at Holmwood are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
There is no service on Saturday evenings (after approximately 18:30) or on Sundays.
The station is unstaffed and has no ticket office although there is a self-service ticket machine on the London bound platform for ticket purchases. Both platforms have departure boards, shelters and modern help points. There are no car parking facilities at the station although there is a small bicycle storage facility.[2]
The original 1877 signal box remains on the London bound platform although now disused. The signal box is Grade II listed.
The station opened in 1867 in what was the far north of the civil parish of Capel along the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway line to Portsmouth.[3]
For many years (until a revised timetable of 10 July 1967), Holmwood had two hourly services during the day in each direction:
Holmwood was a terminus for various additional trains to and from Waterloo.[4]
Prior to 1963 the use of Holmwood as a terminus was implemented for much of the day. For example, a serious accident at Motspur Park on 6 Nov 1947 involved the 16:45 Southern Railway train from Holmwood to Waterloo. This service was withdrawn in 1963, the later 17:45 being the last of a series of hourly trains from Holmwood to Waterloo to be retained in the 1963 timetable. The accident in 1947 resulted from incorrect manual fog signalling when the driver of the Holmwood train was given permission to enter the junction at Motspur Park before the down Chessington train had cleared the junction, and before the signals and points were changed by the signal box.[5]
The earlier timetables for services on the line from London Victoria to Horsham in 1905 and 1917[6] [7] show that services to London Waterloo and London Bridge adhering to the Victorian service pattern from Holmwood, Ockley and Warnham being to London Victoria only.
