Wanborough railway station

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General information
Location	Guildford
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	WAN
History
Opened	1891
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway

A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Wanborough

Ascot–Ash Vale Jn
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

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

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.

Services

South Western Railway runs trains every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday, and every 60 minutes on Sundays between Ascot and Guildford via Aldershot.

A few of Great Western Railway's trains between Reading and Redhill call at Wanborough. On Mondays-Fridays as of 2016 these are:

four trains per day to Redhill (one early morning, two late afternoon and one late night); five trains per day to Reading (four morning and one late evening)

On Saturdays there is one very late evening train to Gatwick Airport on Saturdays, and two (one early morning and one evening) to Reading. No Great Western Railway services call at Wanborough on Sundays.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Ash		South Western Railway Ascot to Guildford line		Guildford
		Great Western Railway North Downs Line Limited Service Mon-Sat only
	Disused railways
Ash Green Halt Line and station closed		Southern Railway		Guildford Line and station open

History

The London and South Western Railway opened the station 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.

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 2407 (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

External links

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

• Wanborough Station, local history site