Upper Halliford railway station explained

Upper Halliford
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Upper Halliford, Spelthorne
Country:England
Coordinates:51.413°N -0.431°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:South Western Railway
Platforms:2
Code:UPH
Classification:DfT category E
Opened:1 May 1944
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Upper Halliford railway station serves the village of Upper Halliford in Surrey, England. It is 17chain34chain down the line from .

The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway.

History

Upper Halliford Halt was opened on 1 May 1944 by Southern for the Windmill Road industrial zone which then had a wartime factory of the British Thermostat Company, manufacturing munitions. The second platform was opened on 6 May 1946.[1]

Station layout

The platforms are linked by a concrete footbridge. There is no staffed ticket office, just ticket machines.

Platform 2, the down platform, with services towards Shepperton, was rebuilt in November 2021.[2]

There is footpath access from the residential end of Upper Halliford Road as well as two sloping paths from the west side of the Upper Halliford Road bridge.There is also a footpath giving access to the north side of Nursery Road.

Services

All services at Upper Halliford are operated by South Western Railway.

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

During the peak hours, the station is served by four morning services to London Waterloo that run via instead of Wimbledon as well as two evening services from London Waterloo via the same route.

On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Mitchell . Vic . Smith . Keith . Kingston and Hounslow Loops including the Shepperton Branch . Middleton Press . 0-906520-83-5 . Fig. 59.
  2. Web site: Holden. Alan. 2021-05-15. New platform at Upper Halliford, Surrey, means changes to trains from London Waterloo. 2021-05-17. RailAdvent. en-GB.