Horsham  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Horsham,District of Horsham England | ||||
| Coordinates | 51°03′58″N0°19′08″W / 51.066°N 0.319°W /51.066; -0.319 | ||||
| Grid reference | TQ178309 | ||||
| Managed by | Southern | ||||
| Platforms | 4 | ||||
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| Station code | HRH | ||||
| Classification | DfT category C2 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 14 February 1848 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  2.855 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.125 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.608 million | ||||
| Interchange | 26,079 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  1.663 million | ||||
| Interchange | 64,418 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 2.094 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.105 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 2.246 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.174 million | ||||
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Horsham railway station serves the town ofHorsham inWest Sussex, England. It is 37 miles 56 chains (60.7 km) down the line fromLondon Bridge, measured viaRedhill, on theArun Valley Line and theSutton & Mole Valley Lines, and train services are provided bySouthern andThameslink. Services on the Sutton & Mole Valley Line from London Victoria via Dorking terminate here, as do Thameslink services from Peterborough via London Bridge. The other services, which begin at London Victoria divide here and continue into the Arun Valley: Rear portions of trains call at all stations toBognor Regis, and the front portions travel non-stopBarnham, before then proceeding ontoPortsmouth Harbour. Outside the station a small Taxi rank is found. There is also bus links toCrawley andHorsham bus stations.
Horsham would have been an important midway point in two of the original proposals for aLondon toBrighton railway via theAdur valley but in the event SirJohn Rennie's proposed direct line throughThree Bridges (in eastCrawley) andHaywards Heath was given parliamentary approval. As a result, the original Horsham station was the terminus of a single track branch line from Three Bridges opened by theLondon Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR) in February 1848.
Between 1859 and 1867, the station was enlarged on several occasions to coincide with the doubling of the branch line from Three Bridges; the extension of the railway from Horsham along theArun Valley Line; the opening of new lines from Horsham toShoreham viaSteyning and fromChrist's Hospital toGuildford. Finally, in 1867, a newroute toDorking,Leatherhead and thence to London, was opened.[1] The station was again partially rebuilt and resignalled, with three signal boxes, in 1875.[2]
The present station was built by theSouthern Railway in theInternational Modern Style in 1938 to coincide with theelectrification of the line. The building was designed byJames Robb Scott and is grade II listed, see external links below. The lines to Guildford and Shoreham both fell victim to theBeeching Axe in the mid-1960s, the former being closed to passengers on 14 June 1965 and the latter on 7 March 1966.
In September 2011, the station frontage was closed to undergo extensive refurbishment work to the main ticket hall. It reopened late in 2012 with a new side entrance, internal lift access, relocated barriers and stairway, a new ticket office, and new information screens. The platforms received a rebuild of the roofing and refurbished waiting rooms. Previously, the building was shared with Henfield Hire, who vacated in order to give the floor space needed to create the new features and new ceiling and lights and so completing a complete reconfiguration of the layout.
Services at Horsham are operated bySouthern andThameslink usingClass 377 and700EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[4][5][6]
In the peak hours, the station is served by a single service between London Bridge and Bognor Regis (viaLittehampton).
On Sundays, the service to London Victoria via Epsom does not run. In addition, the Thameslink service is reduced to 1 tph and runs toBedford, instead of Peterborough.[7] Mainline services are reduced to 1 tph and trains divide at Barnham instead of at Horsham.
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Crawley | Southern | Christ's Hospital or Barnham | ||
| Littlehaven Limited service | ||||
| Thameslink | Terminus | |||
| Southern Monday-Saturday only | ||||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Terminus | British Rail Southern Region | Christ's Hospital | ||
| British Rail Southern Region | | |||
A small woodenmotive power depot was built at the station in 1876.[8] This was replaced by a brick-built ten-roadsemi-roundhouse together with a 46 ft (14 metre)turntable in 1880. This in turn was extended with a further eight roads in 1900. In 1927 theSouthern Railway installed a 55 ft (16.8 metre) turntable. This depot was closed in 1964.[9]
Nearby is the type 13signal box dating from 1938, which is also Grade II listed. It closed in 2005 when its controls were transferred to Three Bridges Integrated Electronic Control Centre.
New services from Horsham have been introduced to destinations north of central London from December 2018.[10] The new timetable was originally proposed in May 2014, with services between Horsham andLondon Bridge transferred from Southern to Thameslink, and extended toPeterborough viaSt Pancras International,Stevenage andSt Neots.
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