Horsley railway station explained

Horsley
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:East Horsley, Guildford
Country:England
Coordinates:51.279°N -0.435°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:South Western Railway
Platforms:2
Code:HSY
Classification:DfT category D
Original:London and South Western Railway
Pregroup:London and South Western Railway
Postgroup:Southern Railway
Years:[1]
Events:Opened as Horsley and Ockham and Ripley
Years1:December 1914
Events1:Renamed Horsley
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Horsley railway station is located in the village of East Horsley in Surrey, England. It is 22chain16chain down the line from, and also serves the village of West Horsley, as well as the nearby villages of Ockham and Ripley.

The station is managed by South Western Railway, who provide the majority of train services; Southern also provide some peak period services.It is situated on the New Guildford Line between London (to the northeast) and Guildford (to the southwest) via Cobham, although some trains operate via rather than Cobham.

History

The railway lines connecting Hampton Court Junction (near) and with Guildford via were proposed in 1880 and authorised to be constructed by the London and South Western Railway. They opened on 2 February 1885.[2] One of the stations between Effingham Junction and Guildford which opened the same day was Horsley and Ockham and Ripley; the name was simplified to Horsley in December 1914, but some timetables showed it as "Horsley for East Horsley, West Horsley, Ockham and Ripley".[3]

Services

All services at Horsley are operated by South Western Railway using EMUs.[4]

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

Additional services run via Epsom during the peak hours, increasing the service to 4 tph in each direction.

On television

Horsley station doubled as Middleton station in the 1990s BBC1 show Pie in the Sky and appeared briefly in the 1984 spy thriller The Jigsaw Man with Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier.

Accidents and incidents

Notes and References

  1. Southern Region Record by R.H.Clark
  2. Book: Dendy Marshall . C.F. . Kidner . R.W. . History of the Southern Railway . 2nd . 1963 . 1937 . . Shepperton . 0-7110-0059-X . 127, 494 .
  3. Book: Butt, R.V.J. . The Directory of Railway Stations . 1995 . Patrick Stephens Ltd . Yeovil . 1-85260-508-1 . R508 . 123 .
  4. SWR withdraws '456s' following service cuts . . 949 . 26 January 2022 . 10–11.
  5. News: Surrey train stabbing: Suspect arrested along with a woman . BBC News . 5 January 2019.
  6. News: Darren Pencille: Train killer 'would panic during rail journeys'. Tanya. Gupta. BBC News . 13 July 2019.