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Bookham railway station
Railway station in Surrey, England
Railway station in Surrey, England
| Field | Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Bookham | ||
| symbol_location | gb | ||
| symbol | rail | ||
| image | Bookham Railway Station (May 2014) (2).JPG | ||
| borough | Great Bookham, District of Mole Valley | ||
| country | England | ||
| grid_name | Grid reference | ||
| grid_position | |||
| manager | South Western Railway | ||
| platforms | 2 | ||
| code | BKA | ||
| classification | DfT category E | ||
| opened | 1885 | ||
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2020/21 | passengers= 45,452}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2021/22 | passengers= 0.134 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2022/23 | passengers= 0.168 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2023/24 | passengers= 0.198 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2024/25 | passengers= 0.212 million}} |
| footnotes | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Bookham railway station is in the village of Great Bookham in Surrey, England. It also serves the adjacent village of Little Bookham. It is 20 mi down the line from .
The station is managed by South Western Railway, which operates all train services.
History
Bookham railway station was opened on 2 February 1885; the line at the time was owned by the London and South Western Railway.
Initially the London and South Western Railway wanted to build the line into the centre of Great Bookham village itself, but as often happened in those early days of rail expansion from London, the key landowners (and villagers) were strongly opposed to that idea and forced the company to adopt a much more northerly route, resulting in the station being built nearly 1 mi from the village high street in open country.
It effectively remained in an open-field setting until the later 1950s/early 1960s when there was a massive expansion of the village, with new estates built to fill the space between the high street and station, leaving only National Trust-owned land as a "green corridor" along parts of Church Road.
The station buildings remain largely unchanged to this day, including the footbridge and platform canopies, however, the station master's house has been sold off as a private dwelling.
Immediately to the west of the station the original goods siding was removed in the 1960s and the associated goods shed (used as a coal depot by local businessman Howard Weale at that time) was finally demolished in the 1990s having lived on for a time as a builder's yard (Tredan) and then offices.
There are now scant landmarks to identify it as the original siding and goods yard. The siding area was for a period home to a blacksmith, but that land was sold for housing development, and where the shed once stood is now a purpose-built office block.
In 2024, the station received upgrades as part of a £6,3 million upgrade of 13 stations in Surrey served by South Western Railway, including refurbished toilets with new accessible ones, new benches and waiting shelters, and fresh painting of the station.
Services
All services at Bookham are operated by South Western Railway using EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
- 1 tph to via
- 1 tph to
Additional services run during the peak hours, increasing the service to 2 tph in each direction.
References
References
- Butt, R.V.J.. (1995). "The Directory of Railway Stations". Patrick Stephens Ltd.
- 'Parishes: Great Bookham', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 (1911), pp. 326–35. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42976. Date accessed: 12 August 2007.
- Staff Reporter. (2024-07-22). "The 13 Surrey trains stations chosen for upgrades by South Western Railway".
- (26 January 2022). "SWR withdraws '456s' following service cuts".
- {{NRtimes. December 2021. 152
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