Gomshall railway station serves the village of

Gomshall Gomshall is a village in the borough of Guildford in Surrey, England.OS Explorer map 145:Guildford and Farnham. Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton. It is on the A25, roughly halfway between Guildford and Dorking, and ...

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, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

. It is on the

North Downs Line The North Downs Line is a passenger-train line connecting Reading, on the Great Western Main Line, to Redhill and , along the Brighton Main Line, linking many centres of population in that part of the North Downs which it traverses en route. ...

, measured from via .

History

The station was opened by the

Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway The South Eastern Railway (SER) was a railway company in south-eastern England from 1836 until 1922. The company was formed to construct a route from London to Dover. Branch lines were later opened to Tunbridge Wells, Hastings, Canterbury ...

on 20 August 1849, and was originally named ''Gomshall and Shere Heath''; it was renamed ''Gomshall and Sheire'' in March 1850, and ''Gomshall and Shere'' in September 1852. On 12 May 1980, the name was simplified to ''Gomshall''. As the older names suggest, it also serves the nearby village of

Shere Shere is a village in the Guildford district of Surrey, England east south-east of Guildford and west of Dorking, centrally bypassed by the A25. It is a small still partly agricultural village chiefly set in the wooded ' Vale of Holmesdale' ...

. It has been unmanned since 1967. The station is from .

Accidents and incidents

On 20 February 1904, a troop train, en route to Southampton, hauled by C class No. 294 was derailed at Gomshall station. There were no fatalities but the locomotive crew and four soldiers of the Northumberland Fusiliers were injured.

Platforms

Gomshall Station has two staggered platforms. A gated foot crossing had been in use to access both until 25 November 2016 when it was replaced by a permanent bridge with ramped and stepped access.

Services

Trains are generally two-hourly off-peak and hourly peak-time, with additional services stopping at peak-time. There are 28 week-day services that call at Gomshall, 14 to , 12 to and 2 to . There are 18 Saturday services that call at Gomshall, 9 to , 8 to and 1 to . There are 16 Sunday services that call at Gomshall, 8 to , 6 to and 2 to .

References

Railway stations in Surrey Former South Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849 Railway stations served by Great Western Railway 1849 establishments in England {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub