Holmwood railway station

Services

All services at Holmwood are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

• 1 tph to London Victoria via Sutton
• 1 tph to

There is no service on Saturday evenings (after approximately 18:30) or on Sundays.

Facilities

Station Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has no ticket office although there is a self-service ticket machine on the London bound platform for ticket purchases. Both platforms have departure boards, shelters and modern help points. There are no car parking facilities at the station although there is a small bicycle storage facility.

The Signal Box

The original 1877 signal box remains on the London bound platform although now disused. The signal box is Grade II listed.

History

The station opened in 1867 in what was the far north of the civil parish of Capel along the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway line to Portsmouth.

For many years (until a revised timetable of 10 July 1967), Holmwood had two hourly services during the day in each direction:

• to and from Waterloo and Horsham
• to and from London Bridge (via Sutton and Tulse Hill) and Horsham.

Holmwood was a terminus for various additional trains to and from Waterloo.

Prior to 1963 the use of Holmwood as a terminus was implemented for much of the day. For example, a serious accident at Motspur Park on 6 Nov 1947 involved the 16:45 Southern Railway train from Holmwood to Waterloo. This service was withdrawn in 1963, the later 17:45 being the last of a series of hourly trains from Holmwood to Waterloo to be retained in the 1963 timetable. The accident in 1947 resulted from incorrect manual fog signalling when the driver of the Holmwood train was given permission to enter the junction at Motspur Park before the down Chessington train had cleared the junction, and before the signals and points were changed by the signal box.

The earlier timetables for services on the line from London Victoria to Horsham in 1905 and 1917 show that services to London Waterloo and London Bridge adhering to the Victorian service pattern from Holmwood, Ockley and Warnham being to London Victoria only.

References

References

1. Yonge, John. (November 2008). "Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL". Trackmaps.
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3. "Holmwood station information". Southern.
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5. (1911). "Parishes: Capel". Institute of Historical Research.
6. British Railways Southern Region passenger and working timetables for 1966-1967.
7. Ministry of Transport. (26 February 1948). "Report on the Collision which occurred on 6th November, 1947, at Motspur Park Junction on the Southern Railway".
8. London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. (November 1905). "London, Mitcham, Sutton, Epsom, Leatherhead, Dorking and Horsham Line".
9. London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. (November 1917). "London, Mitcham, Sutton, Epsom, Leatherhead, Dorking and Horsham Line".