Wanborough railway station

Wanborough railway station is in Flexford, Surrey, England. It serves the villages of Normandy to the north and Wanborough to the south.

Wanborough
General information
Location	Wanborough, Guildford England
Grid reference	SU931503
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	WAN
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Opened	1891
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Passengers
2018/19	0.107 million
2019/20	88,364
2020/21	17,994
2021/22	47,502
2022/23	57,248
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Wanborough

v t e Ascot–Ash Vale Jn
Legend
Waterloo–Reading line to Reading & Waterloo Ascot 28 mi 79 ch 46.65 km Bagshot 32 mi 08 ch 51.66 km Guildford Road Viaduct Bagshot Tunnel Camberley 35 mi 30 ch 56.93 km Frimley 37 mi 48 ch 60.51 km South West Main Line to Weymouth & Waterloo Mytchett Lake Railway Bridge Alton line to Pirbright Jn Ash Vale Jn 40 mi 57 ch 65.52 km Ash Vale Alton line to Alton

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

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

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.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Guildford		South Western Railway Ascot to Guildford Line		Ash
		Great Western Railway North Downs Line Peak Hours Only
	Disused railways
Guildford Line and station open		Southern Railway Alton Line		Ash Green Halt Line and station closed

References

1. 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.
2. Table 148, 149 National Rail timetable, December 2023

External links

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

51.245°N 0.668°W / 51.245; -0.668

• Wanborough Station, local history site