Bognor Regis railway station

Bognor Regis railway station is in the town of Bognor Regis, in the English county of West Sussex. It is approximately 54 miles (87 km) southwest of London Victoria. The station and the trains serving it are operated by Southern railway company. The station is a terminus at the end of a short branch off the West Coastway Line.

Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis Station
Location
PlaceBognor Regis
Local authorityArun, West Sussex
Grid referenceSZ934994
Operations
Station codeBOG
Managed bySouthern
Number of platforms4
DfT categoryD
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 1.237 million
2015/16 1.202 million
2016/17 0.972 million
2017/18 1.038 million
2018/19 1.095 million
History
Key datesOpened 1 June 1864 (1 June 1864)
Listed status
Listed featureRailway Station
Listing gradeGrade II listed
Entry number1027734[1]
Added to list8 August 1989
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bognor Regis from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
A 1947 Ordnance Survey map, showing Bognor Regis station
Bognor Regis station and pointwork

History

The first station to serve Bognor was situated on the main line at Woodgate Crossing, a little more than one mile (1.6 km) west of the present Barnham railway station. It was opened on 8 June 1846 by the Brighton and Chichester Railway, which became the London Brighton and South Coast Railway a few weeks later. This station was renamed several times during its short life becoming Woodgate for Bognor, Woodgate, Bognor (again) and Woodgate (again) before closing in 1864.[2]

The site of the present station dates from the opening of the branch line to Bognor from Barnham on 1 June 1864, after several abortive projects to connect the town to the railway system in 1845, 1853 and 1855. The station suffered two disasters in the 1890s, when it was blown down in a gale in 1897, and then burned down in 1899.[3] The present station buildings by the company architect C.D. Collins[4] date from 1902 and have achieved grade II listed building status[1] as an Edwardian period seaside station terminus .[5][6]

The line was doubled between 1902 and 1911, and electrified in the 1938.[7] The station was renamed 'Bognor Regis' by the Southern Railway in 1930 as the town was renamed as such having been the place of the King's (George V) recuperation from serious illness.

Facilities

The station has a ticket office, car park, and 4 platforms in use: platforms 1 to 3 are 12 carriages in length whilst platform 4 is only 4 carriages long. The station has a small cafe and newspaper shop.

Services

All services at Bognor Regis are operated by Southern. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: [8][9]

On Sundays, the shuttle service to Barnham does not run and the service to London Victoria is reduced to 1 tph.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Southern
West Coastway line
Bognor Regis Branch
Terminus

References
  1. Historic England, "Railway Station (1027734)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 26 June 2017
  2. Turner, John Howard (1978). The London Brighton and South Coast Railway 2 Establishment and Growth. Batsford. p. 42. ISBN 0-7134-1198-8.
  3. Turner, John Howard (1978). The London Brighton and South Coast Railway 3 Completion and Maturity. Batsford. p. 155. ISBN 0-7134-1389-1.
  4. "Bognor Station Improvements". Chichester Observer. 26 September 1900. Retrieved 26 June 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. Minnis, John (1999). The London Brighton and South Coast Railway. Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-1626-X. p.29.
  6. "Railway Station - A Grade II Listed Building in Bognor Regis, West Sussex". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  7. Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1983). "Bognor Regis". South Coast Railways ~ Worthing to Chichester via Littlehampton and Bognor Regis. Middleton Press. ISBN 0906520061.
  8. "Timetable 26: Bognor Regis to Littlehampton" (PDF). Southern, December 2019.
  9. "Timetable 28: Southampton and Portsmouth to London via Horsham" (PDF). Southern, December 2019.

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