Crawley  | |||||
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 Crawley Railway Station | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Crawley,Borough of Crawley,West Sussex England | ||||
| Grid reference | TQ270363 | ||||
| Managed by | Southern | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | CRW | ||||
| Classification | DfT category D | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 14 February 1848 | Opening of original station | ||||
| 28 July 1968 | Closure of original station and opening of present station to the east | ||||
| December 2021 | Second station original concourse closed | ||||
| 22 November 2022 | New concourse opened | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2020/21 |  0.488 million | ||||
| Interchange | 954 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  1.005 million | ||||
| Interchange | 2,152 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 1.161 million | ||||
| Interchange | 3,065 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 1.287 million | ||||
| Interchange | 2,246 | ||||
| 2024/25 | 1.371 million | ||||
| Interchange | 2,404 | ||||
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Crawley railway station is a railway station serving the town ofCrawley inWest Sussex, England. It is 30 miles 49 chains (49.3 km) down the line fromLondon Bridge, measured via Redhill.[1] It is operated bySouthern. The station is the last stop on theArun Valley Line before it joins theBrighton Main Line.
The single track branch line of theLondon Brighton and South Coast Railway betweenThree Bridges andHorsham was opened on 14 February 1848.[2]Crawley andFaygate were intermediate stations, each with two platforms to enable trains to pass. The line was doubled throughout during 1862 to coincide with the extension of the railway from Horsham to the Arun Valley.
The first Crawley station was situated immediately adjacent to the main High Street, with station buildings on the north side of the railway line.[3]
With the continued development of theNew Town during the 1950s and 1960s it soon became clear that the station was too small, and a new station building was opened 28 July 1968 at the current site.[4] The new station was funded by a six-storey commercial development above the newBritish Rail station. The original station buildings were demolished in August 1968, but the platforms still survive.
A planning application[5] was approved on 16 August 2016 for the demolition and redevelopment of the station buildings to include residential apartments, retail space and multi-storey car parking.
The main concourse and ticket office closed for redevelopment in December 2021. The redevelopment of the main concourse and ticket office was completed in November 2022 and the new concourse opened to the public on 22 November 2022. The new concourse used empty space from sections of the lower floors of the abandoned office block, however the rest of the former office block remains derelict.[6]
In 2020, an accessible footbridge with lifts was installed. It was due to open by autumn 2020.[7][needs update]
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Services at Crawley are operated bySouthern andThameslink usingClass 377 and700EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[8]
In the peak hours, the station is served by a single service between Bognor Regis and London Bridge.
On Sundays, there is an hourly Southern service between London Victoria and Bognor Regis and Portsmouth Harbour, which divides atBarnham (instead of Horsham), and an hourly Thameslink service between Horsham andBedford (instead of Peterborough).
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thameslink | ||||
| Southern | ||||
Limited service | ||||
The original signal box, dating from 1877, survives. It is a tall box with a timber superstructure on a brick base and was built by the firm ofSaxby and Farmer.[9] It was made redundant in 1978 when the railwaylevel crossing gates were removed. It is a Grade IIlisted building[10] and has recently[when?] been partially restored.
The former goods yard to the east of the old Crawley Station was closed in the 1960s and demolished to make way for the new station.[citation needed]
