Ford railway station is a railway station in Ford, West Sussex, England. It is located on the West Coastway Line which runs between Brighton and Southampton and it is 60 miles 48 chains (97.5 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill. The station and the trains serving it are operated by Southern.
Ford  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Ford (Arundel), Arun, West Sussex England | ||||
| Grid reference | TQ002042 | ||||
| Managed by | Southern | ||||
| Platforms | 2 (was 3) | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | FOD | ||||
| Classification | DfT category E | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 8 June 1846 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  0.117 million | ||||
| Interchange |  0.103 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 49,220 | ||||
| Interchange | 37,136 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 92,108 | ||||
| Interchange | 79,674 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 94,128 | ||||
| Interchange | 97,834 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.106 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.102 million | ||||
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Location
editFord serves a rural community with only a few houses and one pub nearby, HMP Ford is about one mile south of the station. Adjacent to the station is the large model railway shop Gaugemaster.
Ford station is close to the junction from the West Coastway line to the Arun Valley Line and the short branch to Littlehampton. It is sometimes used as an interchange for those lines, however, due to the station's lack of facilities, most passengers prefer to change at Barnham.
Facilities
editFord station has a ticket office which is open for part of the day. There are PERTIS 'Permit to Travel' passenger-operated ticket-issuing machines available at the entrances from the road to both platforms at those times when the ticket office is closed.
Ford was a 3 platform station but one platform was closed and is now abandoned and overgrown.
- Ticket office (1 Window)
- Waiting Rooms x2
- Vending Machine (Sells Tea & Coffee)
- Toilets (closed Sundays)
- Post Box
- Sheltered seating around the station
- Departure Boards (1 on both platforms)
- Subway (linking platforms)
- Car Park
Information
editThe station is staffed Monday-Saturday 06:30-13:20 and Sunday 08:10-15:40. It has CCTV installed.[1]
Services
editAll services at Ford are operated by Southern using class 377 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[2]
- 2 tph to London Victoria via Horsham
- 3 tph to Brighton (1 of these runs via Littlehampton)
- 2 tph to Bognor Regis
- 2 tph to Southampton Central
- 1 tph to Chichester
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Southern | ||||
| Southern Littlehampton Branch | ||||
| Southern | ||||
Accidents and incidents
editOn 5 August 1951, an electric multiple unit overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with another at the station. Ten people were killed and 46 were injured.[3][4][5]
Gallery
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General view looking east. -
Platform 1 buildings. -
Platform 2 buildings.
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References
edit- ^ "Ford (FOD)". National Rail Enquiries. 12 February 2009.
- ^ "Timetable 28: Southampton and Portsmouth to Horsham and London" (PDF). Southern, December 2019.
- ^ Earnshaw, Alan (1991). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 7. Penryn: Atlantic Books. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-906899-50-2.
- ^ Moody, G. T. (1979) [1957]. Southern Electric 1909-1979 (Fifth ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 0-7110-0924-4.
- ^ Cresswell, Irvine (2010). "Ford 5 August 1951". The Southern Way (10): 72–77. ISBN 9781906419301.
External links
edit- Train times and station information for Ford railway station from National Rail