Railway station in Surrey, England
A 1912
Railway Clearing House
map of lines around Wanborough
Wanborough railway station
is in
Flexford
,
Surrey
, England. It serves the villages of
Normandy
to the north and
Wanborough
to the south.
South Western Railway
operates the station and most of the trains that serve it.
Great Western Railway
also provides a limited service. The station is on the Ascot to Guildford line and the
North Downs Line
, 34
miles
29
chains
(55.3 km) from
London Waterloo
.
History
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The
London and South Western Railway
opened the station on its
Guildford to Aldershot line
in 1891.
British Railways
closed the station's signal box in 1966, on the day that it commissioned the then-new signal box at Ash Crossing. Ash Crossing signal box has itself since been decommissioned and demolished. BR made Wanborough unstaffed in 1987. The station is 34
miles
29
chains
(55.3 km) from
Waterloo
(measured via
Worplesdon
and milepost
30
+
1
⁄
4
at
Guildford
), and has two platforms, which can each accommodate a four-coach train.
[1]
Much of Wanborough's train service has been remarkably unchanged over the years. A look at the historical website below shows for example:
Wanborough (from Guildford) to Ascot service Mon-Fri after the morning rush hour in the following years:
Year 1937: Times - Difficult to confirm all as times shown from Waterloo but basically at 0934, 1005 then at :35 and :05 till 2205 and then some later trains
Year 1939: Times 0937, 1007, 1039, 1109, 1137, 1237 and half-hourly to 0007 (next morning)
Year 1957: Times 0937, 1007, 1039, 1109, 1137, 1237, 1307, 1309, 1407, 1439, 1507, 1537, 1609, 1637, 1709, 1739, 1809, 1840, 1907, 1937, 2010, 2037, 2109, 2207, 2237,2307 (last service one hour earlier than in 1939)
Year 2010: Times 0936 and half-hourly till 2306
Services
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Services at Wanborough are operated by
South Western Railway
and
Great Western Railway
using
Class 165
and
166
DMUs
and
Class 450
EMUs
.
[
citation needed
]
The typical off-peak service is two trains per hour in each direction between
Guildford
and
Farnham
via
Aldershot
, operated by South Western Railway. A small number of Great Western Railway services between
Reading
and
Gatwick Airport
via Guildford call at the station during the peak hours.
[2]
On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction with westbound services running to and from
Ascot
instead of Farnham.
References
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- ^
Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.).
Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL
(3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 23.
ISBN
978-0-9549866-4-3
.
- ^
Table 148, 149
National Rail
timetable, December 2023
External links
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