Crawley railway station

Crawley
Crawley Railway Station
Location
Place	Crawley
Local authority	Crawley, West Sussex
Operations
Station code	CRW
Managed by	Southern
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	1.585 million
2005/06 *	1.689 million
2006/07 *	1.802 million
2007/08 *	1.899 million
2008/09 *	1.885 million
History
14 February 1848	Opening of original station
28 July 1968	Closure of original station and opening of present station to the east
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Crawley from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Crawley railway station is a railway station serving the town of Crawley in West Sussex. The station is 47 km (29½ miles) south of London Victoria and is owned and operated by Southern. The station is the last stop on the Arun Valley Line before it rejoins the Brighton Main Line

History

The single track branch line of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway between Three Bridges and Horsham was opened 14 February 1848.^[1] Crawley and Faygate were intermediate stations each with two platforms to enable trains to pass. The line was doubled throughout during 1862 to coincide with the extension of the railway from Horsham to the Arun Valley.

The first Crawley station was situated immediately adjacent to the main High Street, with station buildings on the north side of the railway line.^[2]

With the continued development of the New Town during the 1950s and 1960s it soon became clear that the station was too small, and a new station building was opened 28 July 1968 at the current site.^[3]. The new station was funded by a six-storey commercial development above.

The platforms and signalbox of the original station still survive. The former goods yard at Crawley was closed in the 1960s

Facilities

• Concourse
• Ticket office (x2)
• Quick Ticket
• Vending Machine
• Pumpkin Cafe
• Waiting room (x2)
• Toilets
• Car Park
• Bicycle storage

Services

Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a half-hourly service to London Victoria, and a half-hourly service to London Bridge. Westbound there are 4 trains per hour to Horsham, two terminating and two splitting in half. Of the two splitters the front portion goes to either Portsmouth harbour or Southampton Central alternately and the rear portion continues to Bognor Regis serving the Arun Valley stations south of Horsham.

Sundays there is a half-hourly service eastbound to London Victoria and also to Horsham westbound with a train continuing to Bognor Regis hourly.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Three Bridges		Southern Arun Valley Line		Ifield

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  Crawley Station in 2008 showing the original now disused platforms.

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  Crawley Signal Box

References

1. ^ *Howard Turner, Charles (1977). The London Brighton and South Coast Railway. 1 Origins and Formation (1st edn ed.). London: Batsford. ISBN 071340275X.  232-4.
2. ^ Bastable, Roger. No.1 Crawley High Street in Photographs. Crawley: Roger Bastable Publications. pp. 54–57. 
3. ^ Body, Geoffrey. PSL field guide to the railways of Southern Region. Wellinborough: Patrick stephens Ltd.. p. 75. ISBN 185260297X. 

External links

• Train times and station information for Crawley railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 51°06′43″N 0°11′13″W / 51.112°N 0.187°W / 51.112; -0.187