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 lies on the Aldershot to Guildford line and the North Downs Line, from.

History

The London and South Western Railway opened the station on its Guildford to Aldershot line in 1891. British Rail 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 [London London Waterloo railway station|Waterloo railway station|Waterloo], and has two platforms, which can each accommodate a four-coach train.

Historical services

Much of Wanborough's train service has been remarkably unchanged over the years. Historical services at Wanborough to Ascot are shown below, for Monday-Friday and after the morning rush hour, in the following years:

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
1939: Times 0937, 1007, 1039, 1109, 1137, 1237 and half-hourly to 0007
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
2010: Times 0936 and half-hourly till 2306

Services

The typical off-peak service is:

Two trains per hour in each direction between and via, operated by South Western Railway. On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction with westbound services running to and from instead of Farnham.
A small number of Great Western Railway services between and via Guildford call at the station during peak hours.