Horsley railway station

Horsley
Location	East Horsley, Guildford England
Coordinates	51°16′44″N 0°26′06″W / 51.279°N 0.435°W / 51.279; -0.435Coordinates: 51°16′44″N 0°26′06″W / 51.279°N 0.435°W / 51.279; -0.435
Grid reference	TQ092545
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	HSY
Classification	DfT category D
History
Original company	London and South Western Railway
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
2 February 1885 (1885-02-02)[1]	Opened as Horsley and Ockham and Ripley
December 1914	Renamed Horsley
Passengers
2015/16	0.446 million
2016/17	0.449 million
2017/18	0.435 million
2018/19	0.421 million
2019/20	0.383 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Horsley railway station is located in the village of East Horsley in Surrey, England. It is 22 miles 16 chains (35.7 km) down the line from London Waterloo, and also serves the village of West Horsley, as well as the nearby villages of Ockham and Ripley.

The station is managed by South Western Railway, who provide the majority of train services; Southern also provide some peak period services. It is situated on the New Guildford Line between London (to the northeast) and Guildford (to the southwest) via Cobham, although some trains operate via Epsom rather than Cobham.

History[]

The railway lines connecting Hampton Court Junction (near Surbiton) and Leatherhead with Guildford via Effingham Junction were proposed in 1880 and authorised to be constructed by the London and South Western Railway. They opened on 2 February 1885.^[2] One of the stations between Effingham Junction and Guildford which opened the same day was Horsley and Ockham and Ripley; the name was simplified to Horsley in December 1914, but some timetables showed it as "Horsley for East Horsley, West Horsley, Ockham and Ripley".^[3]

Services[]

South Western Railway operate all off-peak services at the station using Class 455 and 456 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[4]

• 4 tph to London Waterloo (2 of these run via Epsom and 2 run via Cobham)
• 4 tph to Guildford

During the peak hours, the station is also served by a number of Southern services between Guildford and London Bridge via Sutton and West Croydon. These services run towards London in the morning peak and towards Guildford in the evening peak and are operated using Class 377 EMUs.^[5]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Effingham Junction		South Western Railway New Guildford Line Mole Valley Line		Clandon
		Southern Sutton & Mole Valley Lines Peak Hours Only

On television[]

Horsley station doubled as Middleton station in the 1990s BBC1 show Pie in the Sky and appeared briefly in the 1984 spy thriller The Jigsaw Man with Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier.^{[citation needed]}

Accidents and incidents[]

• On 4 January 2019, a 51-year-old male passenger was fatally stabbed on board a South Western Railway service from Guildford to London Waterloo, as it was travelling between London Road and Clandon stations in Surrey. The train was stopped at Horsley to allow emergency services to deal with the incident. The station was closed and cordoned off by the emergency services as a result, to allow a murder inquiry to take place. The suspect in the stabbing exited the train at Clandon and was arrested the following day.^[6] The suspect, Darren Pencille, was subsequently found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.^[7]

References[]

External links[]

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

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