Ford railway station

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General information
Location	Arun, West Sussex
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2 (was 3)
Other information
Station code	FOD
History
Opened	8 June 1846

Ford railway station is a railway station in Ford, West Sussex, England. It is located on the West Coastway Line which runs between Brighton and Southampton and it is 60 miles 48 chains (97.5 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill. The station and the trains serving it are operated by Southern.

Location

Ford serves a rural community with only a few houses and one pub nearby, HMP Ford is about one mile south of the station. Adjacent to the station is a large model railway shop.

Ford station is close to the junction from the West Coastway line to the Arun Valley Line and the short branch to Littlehampton. It is sometimes used as an interchange for those lines, however, due to the station's lack of facilities, most passengers prefer to change at Barnham.

Facilities

Ford station has a ticket office which is open for part of the day. There are PERTIS 'Permit to Travel' passenger-operated ticket-issuing machines available at the entrances from the road to both platforms at those times when the ticket office is closed.

Ford was a 3 platform station but one platform was closed and is now abandoned and overgrown.

Ticket office (1 Window)
Waiting Rooms x2
Vending Machine (Sells Tea & Coffee)
Toilets
Post Box
Sheltered seating around the station
Departure Boards (1 on both platforms)
Subway (linking platforms)
Car Park

Information

The station is staffed Monday-Saturday 06:30-13:20 and Sunday 08:10-15:40. It has CCTV installed.^[1]

Services

Despite being a relatively lightly-used station in terms of ticket purchases, Ford is served by a large number of services throughout the day - a total of 5 trains per hour call here each way during the off-peak. The typical off-peak service is as follows:

Eastbound

2tph to London Victoria via Horsham and Gatwick Airport;
1tph to Brighton via Worthing and Hove;
2tph to Littlehampton.

Westbound

3tph to Bognor Regis;
1tph to Portsmouth & Southsea via Chichester and Havant;
1tph to Southampton Central via Chichester, Havant and Fareham.

Accidents and incidents

On 5 August 1951, an electric multiple unit overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with another at the station. Ten people were killed and 46 were injured.^[2]^[3]

Preceding station		Following station
Angmering	Southern West Coastway Line	Barnham
Littlehampton	Southern West Coastway Line Littlehampton branch
Arundel	Southern Arun Valley Line

Gallery

General view looking east.
Platform 1 buildings.
Platform 2 buildings.

References

^ http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/fod/details.html As of 12 February 2009
^ Earnshaw, Alan (1991). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 7. Penryn: Atlantic Books. p. 33. ISBN 0-906899-50-8.
^ Moody, G. T. (1979) [1957]. Southern Electric 1909-1979 (Fifth ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 0 7110 0924 4.

External links

Train times and station information for Ford railway station from National Rail

50°49′46″N 0°34′43″W / 50.82944°N 0.57861°W / 50.82944; -0.57861

[1] ttp://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/fod/details.html As of 12 February 2009

[Earnshaw7-2] Earnshaw, Alan (1991). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 7. Penryn: Atlantic Books. p. 33. ISBN 0-906899-50-8.

[Moody-3] Moody, G. T. (1979) [1957]. Southern Electric 1909-1979 (Fifth ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 0 7110 0924 4.

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