Horsley railway station

Horsley railway station is located in the village of East Horsley in Surrey, England. It is 22 miles 16 chains (35.7 km) down the line from London Waterloo, and also serves the village of West Horsley, as well as the nearby villages of Ockham and Ripley.

Not to be confused with Horley railway station.

Horsley
Location
PlaceEast Horsley
Local authorityGuildford
Coordinates51.279°N 0.435°W / 51.279; -0.435
Grid referenceTQ092545
Operations
Station codeHSY
Managed bySouth Western Railway
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryD
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.436 million
2015/16 0.446 million
2016/17 0.449 million
2017/18 0.435 million
2018/19 0.421 million
History
Original companyLondon and South Western Railway
Pre-groupingLondon and South Western Railway
Post-groupingSouthern Railway
2 February 1885 (1885-02-02)[1]Opened as Horsley and Ockham and Ripley
December 1914Renamed Horsley
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Horsley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station is managed by South Western Railway, who provide the majority of train services; Southern also provide some peak period services. It is situated on the New Guildford Line between London (to the northeast) and Guildford (to the southwest) via Cobham, although some trains operate via Epsom rather than Cobham.

History

The railway lines connecting Hampton Court Junction (near Surbiton) and Leatherhead with Guildford via Effingham Junction were proposed in 1880 and authorised to be constructed by the London and South Western Railway. They opened on 2 February 1885.[2] One of the stations between Effingham Junction and Guildford which opened the same day was Horsley and Ockham and Ripley; the name was simplified to Horsley in December 1914, but some timetables showed it as "Horsley for East Horsley, West Horsley, Ockham and Ripley".[3]

Services

South Western Railway

Southern (Peak Time Only)

On television

Horsley station doubled as Middleton station in the 1990s BBC1 show Pie in the Sky and appeared briefly in the 1984 spy thriller The Jigsaw Man with Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier.

Accidents and incidents
  • On 4 January 2019, a 51-year-old male passenger was fatally stabbed on board a South Western Railway service from Guildford to London Waterloo, as it was travelling between London Road and Clandon stations in Surrey. The train was stopped at Horsley to allow emergency services to deal with the incident. The station was closed and cordoned off by the emergency services as a result, to allow a murder inquiry to take place. The suspect in the stabbing exited the train at Clandon and was arrested the following day.[4] The suspect, Dareren Pencille, was subsequently found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.[5]

References
  1. Southern Region Record by R.H.Clark
  2. Dendy Marshall, C.F.; Kidner, R.W. (1963) [1937]. History of the Southern Railway (2nd ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan. pp. 127, 494. ISBN 0-7110-0059-X.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 123. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  4. "Surrey train stabbing: Suspect arrested along with a woman". BBC News. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  5. "Darren Pencille: Train killer 'would panic during rail journeys'". BBC News. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Effingham Junction   South Western Railway
Waterloo-Guildford via Cobham
Waterloo-Guildford via Epsom		   Clandon
Effingham Junction   Southern
Peak periods only		   Clandon


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