Wanborough railway station

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

Wanborough
General information
Location	Wanborough, Guildford England
Grid reference	SU931503
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	WAN
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Opened	1891
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Passengers
2019/20	88,364
2020/21	17,994
2021/22	47,502
2022/23	57,248
2023/24	54,294
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

South Western Railway operates the station and most of the trains that serve it; Great Western Railway also provides a limited service. The station lies on the Aldershot to Guildford line and the North Downs Line, 34 miles 29 chains (55.3 km) from London Waterloo.

History

A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Wanborough

Wanborough station, circa 1910

The London and South Western Railway opened the station on its Guildford to Aldershot line in 1891. British Rail (BR) 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.^[1]

Historical services

Much of Wanborough's train service has been remarkably unchanged over the years. Historical services at Wanborough (from Guildford) to Ascot are shown below, for Monday-Friday and after the morning rush hour, in the following years:

• 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
• 1939: Times 0937, 1007, 1039, 1109, 1137, 1237 and half-hourly to 0007 (next morning)
• 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)
• 2010: Times 0936 and half-hourly till 2306

Services

The typical off-peak service is:

• Two trains per hour in each direction between Guildford and Farnham via Aldershot, operated by South Western Railway. On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction with westbound services running to and from Ascot instead of Farnham.
• A small number of Great Western Railway services between Reading and Gatwick Airport via Guildford call at the station during peak hours.^[2]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Guildford		South Western Railway Farnham to Guildford Line		Ash
		Great Western Railway North Downs Line Peak Hours Only
	Disused railways
Guildford Line and station open		Southern Railway Alton Line		Ash Green Halt Line and station closed