Ockley railway station

Ockley railway station serves the villages of Ockley and Capel in Surrey, England and is 1.4 miles (2.3 km) from Ockley village and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of the village of Capel. The station is 29 miles 20 chains (47.1 km) from London Waterloo station.[1] Ockley is managed by Southern which also provide the services.

Ockley
Location
PlaceOckley
Local authorityDistrict of Mole Valley
Grid referenceTQ164404
Operations
Station codeOLY
Managed bySouthern
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 43,726
2015/16 42,188
2016/17 32,680
2017/18 34,738
2018/19 36,388
History
Key datesOpened 1 May 1867 (1 May 1867)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ockley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

It opened as Ockley & Capel on 1 May 1867 as part of the London Brighton & South Coast Railway extension to Horsham. Its situation next to Le Steeres of Jayes Park brickworks (closed c 1914) and nearby Phorpres Works (now Clockhouse Works) allowed for substantial brickwork traffic for many years. Milk traffic was also important until the early 1930s when this trade was lost to road transport.

Goods traffic declined slowly over the next 30 years ceasing finally in June 1962.[2]

In 2000 the station was Grade II listed.[3]

A great deal of further detail on the history of this station and the entire section of line between Dorking and Horsham can be found in John Harrod's Up The Dorking.[4]

Services
Ockley railway station platform 1 seen on the way to Horsham

For most of the day there is one train per hour southbound to Horsham and there is also one train per hour northbound towards London Victoria via Sutton and Clapham Junction. However, in the Monday to Friday morning peak northbound and the evening peak southbound there are some additional services on an approximately half-hourly basis.

From May 2018, there is an hourly mid and late evening service operating between Horsham and London, operating Monday to Friday.[5]

There is no Sunday service from this station.

Facilities

The station has free parking for around 17 cars (15 normal spaces and two disabled) in the Station Approach. There is no taxi rank. There is a BT payphone in front of the station building. There are no buses that serve the station itself.

Journey times

Journey times now vary between 63 and 76 minutes to London Victoria compared to times of between only 51 and 60 minutes as recently as 1992.[6]

References
  1. Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 19A. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith. Epsom to Horsham Southern Min Lines. Middleton Press.
  3. "Ockley Railway Station, Rhumbles and the Coach House". British Listed Buildings.
  4. Harrod, John. Up The Dorking. Ian Allan Publishing.
  5. Network Rail. "Timetable No. 180, May 2018".
  6. GB National Rail Timetable May 1992 Edition, Table 182
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Holmwood   Southern
Sutton & Mole Valley Lines
Mondays-Saturdays only		   Warnham

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.