Horsley railway station is located in the village of
East Horsley
East Horsley is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England, 21 miles southwest of London, on the A246 between Leatherhead and Guildford. Horsley and Effingham Junction railway stations are on the New Guildford line to London Waterloo. ...
in
Surrey,
England
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. It is down the line from , and also serves the village of
West Horsley
West Horsley is a semi-rural village between Guildford and Leatherhead in Surrey, England. It lies on the A246, and south of the M25 and the A3. Its civil parish ascends to an ancient woodland Sheepleas Woods which are on the northern downsl ...
, as well as the nearby villages of
Ockham and
Ripley.
The station is managed by
South Western Railway, who provide the majority of train services;
Southern also provide some peak period services.
It is situated on the
New Guildford Line between London (to the northeast) and
Guildford (to the southwest) via
Cobham, although some trains operate via rather than Cobham.
History
The railway lines connecting Hampton Court Junction (near ) and with
Guildford via were proposed in 1880 and authorised to be constructed by the
London and South Western Railway
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. They opened on 2 February 1885. One of the stations between Effingham Junction and Guildford which opened the same day was ''Horsley and Ockham and Ripley''; the name was simplified to ''Horsley'' in December 1914, but some timetables showed it as "Horsley for East Horsley, West Horsley, Ockham and Ripley".
Services
All services at Horsley are operated by
South Western Railway using
EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
* 3 tph to (2 of these run via
Cobham and 1 runs via )
* 3 tph to
Additional services run via Epsom during the peak hours, increasing the service to 4 tph in each direction.
On television
Horsley station doubled as Middleton station in the 1990s
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'' with Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier.
Accidents and incidents
* On 4 January 2019, a 51-year-old male passenger was fatally stabbed on board a
South Western Railway service from
Guildford to
London Waterloo, as it was travelling between
London Road and
Clandon stations in
Surrey. The train was stopped at Horsley to allow emergency services to deal with the incident. The station was closed and cordoned off by the emergency services as a result, to allow a murder inquiry to take place. The suspect in the stabbing, Darren Pencille, left the train at Clandon and was arrested the following day; he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
References
External links
Railway stations in Surrey
Former London and South Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1885
Railway stations served by South Western Railway
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