Ifield railway station (pronounced 'Eye-field') serves the neighbourhoods of Ifield and Gossops Green in the West Sussex town of Crawley, England. It is on the Arun Valley Line, 31 miles 66 chains (51.2 km) down the line from London Bridge, measured via Redhill.[2] Train services are provided by Thameslink and Southern.
Ifield  | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Ifield, Crawley, West Sussex England | ||||
| Grid reference | TQ250366 | ||||
| Managed by | Southern | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | IFI | ||||
| Classification | DfT category E | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 1 June 1907 | Opened (Lyons Crossing Halt) | ||||
| 6 July 1907 | Renamed (Ifield Halt) | ||||
| 1 January 1917 | Closed | ||||
| 3 May 1920 | Reopened | ||||
| 6 July 1930[1] | Renamed (Ifield) | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  0.332 million | ||||
| 2020/21 |  87,232 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 0.185 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.232 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.231 million | ||||
| |||||
History
editThe station was opened on 1 June 1907 as Lyons Crossing Halt, although it became known as Ifield Halt later that year. It was one of a series of unstaffed intermediate halts set up by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway, to be worked by rail motor trains. It became known simply as Ifield station from 1930.[3]
Services
editOff-peak, all services at Ifield are operated by Thameslink using Class 700 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[4]
- 2 tph to Peterborough via Redhill
- 2 tph to Horsham
The station is also served by a limited number of Southern services to London Victoria, Bognor Regis, Portsmouth & Southsea and Southampton Central.
On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction and northbound services run to and from Bedford instead of Peterborough.
| Preceding station |  National Rail
|
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crawley | Thameslink |
Faygate or Littlehaven | ||
Southern
|
||||
References
edit- ^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 126.
- ^ Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 19B. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
- ^ Hudson, T.P., ed. (1987). "Ifield". A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 3: Bramber Rape (North-Eastern Part) including Crawley New Town. Oxford: Institute of Historical Research by Oxford University Press. pp. 53–60. ISBN 0-19-722768-6. Retrieved 21 January 2007.
- ^ Table 183 National Rail timetable, May 2023
External links
edit
- Train times and station information for Ifield railway station from National Rail