Effingham Junction railway station

Effingham Junction railway station is just north of the far northern border of the village of Effingham, closer to the centre of East Horsley, homes of which it borders, in Surrey, England. Although the station takes its name from the former settlement, and the immediate vicinity has itself become known as Effingham Junction, it is actually in the latter. Effingham Junction is at the junction of the New Guildford Line, from London Waterloo to Guildford, and the line from Leatherhead, which carries trains from Waterloo via Epsom. It is 21 miles 10 chains (34.0 km) down the line from Waterloo.

Effingham Junction
Location
PlaceEffingham
Local authorityBorough of Guildford
Grid referenceTQ102558
Operations
Station codeEFF
Managed bySouth Western Railway
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryD
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.317 million
– Interchange  19,755
2015/16 0.324 million
– Interchange  20,609
2016/17 0.317 million
– Interchange  16,287
2017/18 0.300 million
– Interchange  13,979
2018/19 0.293 million
– Interchange  15,794
History
Key datesOpened 1888 (1888)
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Effingham Junction from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
Platform view (1991)

The London and South Western Railway opened the station on 2 July 1888,[1] three years after completing the two routes that serve it.[2] Both routes were subsequently electrified by the Southern Railway in 1925 and for many years it served as the terminus for trains from the Epsom direction, with a seven-road carriage shed south of the station provided by the SR to allow empty EMU sets to be reversed and stabled clear of the main running lines.[3] This still stands, though it ceased to be used for carriage storage in 1993 – it is now used by Colas Rail as a maintenance base for Network Rail MPVs and track machines.[4]

The station is managed and primarily serviced by South Western Railway, though Southern also provides some peak period services. The latter are a holdover from the British Rail-era timetables of the 1970s and 1980s, when the Epsom line had regular services to London Victoria as well as to Waterloo.[5] It was also served in the late 1980s/early 1990s by Thameslink services between Luton and Guildford via Herne Hill and West Croydon, but these ended in 1994 shortly before the privatisation of the UK railway network.[6]

Services

South Western Railway[7]

Southern (Peak Time Only)[8]

Notes
  1. Mallinson, Howard (2006). Guildford via Cobham. p. 152.
  2. Body, p.88
  3. A view of the carriage shed at Effingham Junction in February 1983Railway Herald; Retrieved 2015-03-01
  4. MPVs at Effingham Junction www.bloodandcustard.com; Retrieved 2015-03-01
  5. Body, p.89
  6. GB National Rail Timetable May 1994 Edition, Table 52
  7. GB NRT May 2017, Table 152
  8. Table 182 National Rail timetable, May 2017
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References
  • Body, G. (1984), PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Southern Region, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Cambridge, ISBN 0-85059-664-5
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Cobham & Stoke d'Abernon   South Western Railway
Waterloo-Guildford via Cobham		   Horsley
Bookham   South Western Railway
Mole Valley Line
Bookham Branch		  
Bookham   Southern
Peak periods only		   Horsley


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