West Byfleet railway station
Location | West Byfleet, Borough of Woking England |
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Coordinates | 51°20′22″N 0°30′19″W / 51.3395°N 0.5054°WCoordinates: 51°20′22″N 0°30′19″W / 51.3395°N 0.5054°W |
Grid reference | TQ041610 |
Managed by | South Western Railway |
Platforms | 3 (2 are used, one seldom) |
Other information | |
Station code | WBY |
Classification | DfT category C2 |
History | |
Opened | 1 December 1887 |
Passengers | |
2015/16 | 1.400 million |
2016/17 | 1.420 million |
2017/18 | 1.385 million |
2018/19 | 1.384 million |
2019/20 | 1.279 million |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
West Byfleet railway station is a railway station serving the village of West Byfleet, which forms part of the borough of Woking in the English county of Surrey.
The station is on the South West Main Line, 21 miles 54 chains (34.9 km) from London Waterloo.[note 1] It opened 49 years after the line was first constructed through the area.[citation needed]
Service overview[]
The station is served by all Alton and Woking (stopping) services by settled convention dating to the mid-to-late 20th century.[when?]
It adjoins West Byfleet and Woodham which are suburban settlements in the boroughs of Woking and Runnymede, to the south and north of the line, respectively. As to other towns it is the closest station to parts of the town/suburb of Byfleet and parts of the semi-rural suburb of Pyrford.[1]
The station has three platforms, one of which (platform 2) is rarely used in line with nearby other South West Main Line stations. The station competes in the broadest sense, not of train company, with faster services at the next nearest station on the line, Woking station. Both are served by bus routes outside of the Transport for London fare-capped scheme.
The station was upgraded to increase disabled access, with lifts to both platform islands and a new bridge, work accomplished 2008-2009.
Services[]
As of April 2015 at off-peak times the station has 4 trains per hour in each direction, alternating between Woking and Alton as to the end or start destination to the south-west and both having London (Waterloo) as their north-east terminus. The Alton services calling at fewer intermediate stations (being semi-fast).
Opened in December 1887 as Byfleet and Woodham, the station was on 27 December 1946 the scene of the derailment of a Bournemouth to London express service. Three people suffered minor injuries.
The station frontage appeared in the 1977 movie Adventures of a Private Eye starring Christopher Neil.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Surbiton or Weybridge | South Western Railway Alton Line |
Woking | ||
Byfleet & New Haw | South Western Railway Waterloo to Woking |
Woking |
Notes[]
References[]
- ^ "Surrey interactive map". Surrey County Council. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
External links[]
- Train times and station information for West Byfleet railway station from National Rail
- Railway stations in Surrey
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1887
- Former London and South Western Railway stations
- Railway stations served by South Western Railway