Ifield railway station
Location | Ifield, Crawley, West Sussex England |
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Grid reference | TQ250366 |
Managed by | Southern |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | IFI |
Classification | DfT category E |
Key dates | |
1 June 1907 | Opened (Lyons Crossing Halt) |
6 July 1907 | Renamed (Ifield Halt) |
1 January 1917 | Closed |
3 May 1920 | Reopened |
6 July 1930[1] | Renamed (Ifield) |
Passengers | |
2016/17 | 0.288 million |
2017/18 | 0.310 million |
2018/19 | 0.330 million |
2019/20 | 0.332 million |
2020/21 | 87,232 |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Ifield railway station (pronounced 'Eye-field') serves the neighbourhoods of Ifield and Gossops Green in the West Sussex town of Crawley, England. It is on the Arun Valley Line, 31 miles 66 chains (51.2 km) down the line from London Bridge, measured via Redhill.[2] Train services are provided by Thameslink and Southern.
History[]
The station was opened on 1 June 1907 as Lyons Crossing Halt, although it became known as Ifield Halt later that year. It was one of a series of unstaffed intermediate halts set up by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway, to be worked by rail motor trains. It became known simply as Ifield station from 1930.[3]
Services[]
Thameslink operate all off-peak services at Ifield using Class 700 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[4]
- 2 tph to Peterborough via Gatwick Airport, London Bridge and Stevenage
- 2 tph to Horsham
The station is also served by a limited number of Southern services to London Victoria, Bognor Regis, Portsmouth Harbour and Southampton Central.
On Sundays, there is an hourly service in each direction although northbound trains run to London Bridge only.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Crawley | Thameslink Arun Valley Line
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Faygate or Littlehaven | ||
Southern
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References[]
- ^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 126.
- ^ Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 19B. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
- ^ Hudson, T.P., ed. (1987). "Ifield". A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 3: Bramber Rape (North-Eastern Part) including Crawley New Town. Oxford: Institute of Historical Research by Oxford University Press. pp. 53–60. ISBN 0-19-722768-6. Retrieved 21 January 2007.
- ^ Table 183 National Rail timetable, May 2020
External links[]
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- Train times and station information for Ifield railway station from National Rail
- Buildings and structures in Crawley
- Railway stations in West Sussex
- Former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1907
- Railway stations served by Southern