West Byfleet railway station

It is served by all Alton and Woking (stopping) services by settled convention dating to the mid-to-late 20th century.

It adjoins West Byfleet and Woodham which are suburban settlements in the boroughs of Woking and Runnymede, to the south and north of the line, respectively. As to other towns it is the closest station to parts of the town/suburb of Byfleet and parts of the semi-rural suburb of Pyrford.[1]

The station has three platforms, one of which (platform 2) is rarely used in line with nearby other South West Main Line stations. The station competes in the broadest sense, not of train company, with faster services at the next nearest station on the line, Woking station. Both are served by bus routes outside of the Transport for London fare-capped scheme.

The station was upgraded to increase disabled access, with lifts to both platform islands and a new bridge, work accomplished 2008-2009.

As of April 2015 at off-peak times the station has 4 trains per hour in each direction, alternating between Woking and Alton as to the end or start destination to the south-west and both having London (Waterloo) as their north-east terminus. The Alton services calling at fewer intermediate stations (being semi-fast).

Opened in December 1887 as Byfleet and Woodham, the station was on 27 December 1946 the scene of the derailment of a Bournemouth to London express service. Three people suffered minor injuries.

The station frontage appeared in the 1977 movie Adventures of a Private Eye starring Christopher Neil.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Surbiton or Weybridge		South Western Railway Alton Line		Woking
Byfleet & New Haw		South Western Railway Waterloo to Woking		Woking

• Train times and station information for West Byfleet railway station from National Rail