Ford railway station

Ford railway station is a railway station in Ford, West Sussex, England. It is located on the West Coastway Line which runs between Brighton and Southampton and it is 60 miles 48 chains (97.5 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill. The station and the trains serving it are operated by Southern.

For the former station in the Sefton borough, north of Liverpool, see Ford railway station (Merseyside).

Ford
Location
Place	Ford (Arundel)
Local authority	Arun, West Sussex
Grid reference	TQ002042
Operations
Station code	FOD
Managed by	Southern
Number of platforms	2 (was 3)
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.124 million
– Interchange	95,508
2015/16	0.114 million
– Interchange	0.112 million
2016/17	95,982
– Interchange	87,852
2017/18	0.115 million
– Interchange	97,168
2018/19	0.118 million
– Interchange	0.102 million
History
Key dates	Opened 8 June 1846 (8 June 1846)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ford from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Location

Ford serves a rural community with only a few houses and one pub nearby, HMP Ford is about one mile south of the station. Adjacent to the station is the large model railway shop Gaugemaster.

Ford station is close to the junction from the West Coastway line to the Arun Valley Line and the short branch to Littlehampton. It is sometimes used as an interchange for those lines, however, due to the station's lack of facilities, most passengers prefer to change at Barnham.

Facilities

Ford station has a ticket office which is open for part of the day. There are PERTIS 'Permit to Travel' passenger-operated ticket-issuing machines available at the entrances from the road to both platforms at those times when the ticket office is closed.

Ford was a 3 platform station but one platform was closed and is now abandoned and overgrown.

• Ticket office (1 Window)
• Waiting Rooms x2
• Vending Machine (Sells Tea & Coffee)
• Toilets
• Post Box
• Sheltered seating around the station
• Departure Boards (1 on both platforms)
• Subway (linking platforms)
• Car Park

Information

The station is staffed Monday-Saturday 06:30-13:20 and Sunday 08:10-15:40. It has CCTV installed.[1]

Services

Despite being a relatively lightly-used station in terms of ticket purchases, Ford is served by a large number of services throughout the day - a total of 5 trains per hour call here each way during the off-peak. The typical off-peak service is as follows:

Eastbound

• 2tph to London Victoria via Horsham and Gatwick Airport;
• 1tph to Brighton via Worthing and Hove;
• 2tph to Littlehampton.

Westbound

• 3tph to Bognor Regis;
• 1tph to Portsmouth & Southsea via Chichester and Havant;
• 1tph to Southampton Central via Chichester, Havant and Fareham.

Accidents and incidents

On 5 August 1951, an electric multiple unit overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with another at the station. Ten people were killed and 46 were injured.[2][3]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Angmering		Southern West Coastway Line		Barnham
Littlehampton		Southern West Coastway Line Littlehampton branch
Arundel		Southern Arun Valley Line

Gallery

• 
  General view looking east.
• 
  Platform 1 buildings.
• 
  Platform 2 buildings.

References

1. "Ford (FOD)". National Rail Enquiries. 12 February 2009.
2. Earnshaw, Alan (1991). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 7. Penryn: Atlantic Books. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-906899-50-2.
3. Moody, G. T. (1979) [1957]. Southern Electric 1909-1979 (Fifth ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 0-7110-0924-4.

External links

• Train times and station information for Ford railway station from National Rail