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.
South Western Railway 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, from.

Services

South Western Railway runs trains every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday, and every 60 minutes on Sundays between and via.
A few of Great Western Railway's trains between and call at Wanborough. On Mondays-Fridays as of 2016 these are:
four trains per day to Redhill ;
five trains per day to Reading
On Saturdays there is one very late evening train to on Saturdays, and two 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. The station is from Waterloo, and has two platforms, which can each accommodate a four-coach train.
Much of Wanborough's train service has been remarkably unchanged over the years. A look at the historical website below shows for example:
Wanborough 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
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
Year 2010: Times 0936 and half-hourly till 2306