Faygate railway station

Faygate
Faygate
Location	Faygate, Horsham; England
Grid reference	TQ217343
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	FGT
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Opened	14 February 1848
Passengers
2015/16	13,222
2016/17	9,028
2017/18	8,326
2018/19	8,298
2019/20	8,614
Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Faygate Station is located on the Arun Valley Line, between Littlehaven and Ifield, 34 miles 28 chains (55.3 km) down the line from London Bridge, measured via Redhill.[1] It serves the small village of Faygate and the Faygate Business Centre, situated on the A264 in the countryside between Crawley and Horsham.

History

The single track branch line of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway between Three Bridges and Horsham was opened 14 February 1848.[2] 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.

Services

The station is unstaffed, and is served mostly in the peak hours. As of April 2015, there are 11 northbound and 12 southbound trains calling at the station on weekdays with no trains in either direction on weekends. Northbound, trains run from Horsham to either London Bridge, London Victoria or Peterborough; one of these trains is extended from Littlehampton. Southbound, trains run from London to Horsham; one of these trains is extended to Southampton Central.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Ifield		Southern Arun Valley Line Mon-Fri only		Littlehaven
Ifield		Thameslink Arun Valley Line Mon-Fri only		Littlehaven

References

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.
Howard Turner, Charles (1977). The London Brighton and South Coast Railway. 1 Origins and Formation (1st ed.). London: Batsford. pp. 232–4. ISBN 0-7134-0275-X.

External links

Train times and station information for Faygate railway station from National Rail
Faygate - Least Used Station in West Sussex 2017 YouTube video by Geoff Marshall about the station.

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[1] 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.

[2] Howard Turner, Charles (1977). The London Brighton and South Coast Railway. 1 Origins and Formation (1st ed.). London: Batsford. pp. 232–4. ISBN 0-7134-0275-X.