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.
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]
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.
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.