Wanborough railway station

Wanborough
Location
Place	Wanborough
Local authority	Guildford
Grid reference	SU931503
Operations
Station code	WAN
Managed by	South West Trains
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	52,745
2004/05	53,750
2005/06	53,167
2006/07	56,541
2007/08	71,570
2008/09	81,560
2009/10	83,110
2010/11	92,728
2011/12	102,510
2012/13	105,620
2013/14	110,328
History
Key dates	Opened 1891
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Wanborough from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Wanborough railway station

Ascot to Guildford Line

Legend Miles and chains from London Waterloo via various routes 28mi 79ch AscotWaterloo to Reading Line 32mi 08ch Bagshot 35mi 30ch Camberley 37mi 48ch Frimley Mileage change South Western Main Line Alton Line 32mi 38ch Ash Vale North Downs Line Ash Lock (Basingstoke Canal) 35mi 00ch Aldershot (trains may reverse) Alton Line ǀ Mileage change 49mi 18ch Ash Mileage change 34mi 29ch Wanborough Mileage change Portsmouth Direct Line New Guildford Line 30mi 27ch Guildford North Downs Line Portsmouth Direct Line

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

Services

South West Trains runs trains every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday, and every 60 minutes on Sundays between Ascot and Guildford via Aldershot.^[1]

A few of Great Western Railways'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.

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.

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

References

1. GB eNRT 2015-16 Edition, Tables 148 & 149

External links

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

Coordinates: 51°14′42″N 0°40′05″W / 51.245°N 0.668°W

• Wanborough Station, local history site