Ockley railway station


Ockley railway station serves the villages of Ockley and Capel in Surrey, England and is from Ockley village and west of the village of Capel. The station is from London Waterloo station. Ockley is managed by Southern which also provide the services.

History

It opened as Ockley & Capel on 1 May 1867 as part of the London Brighton & South Coast Railway extension to Horsham. Its situation next to Le Steeres of Jayes Park brickworks and nearby Phorpres Works allowed for substantial brickwork traffic for many years. Milk traffic was also important until the early 1930s when this trade was lost to road transport.
Goods traffic declined slowly over the next 30 years ceasing finally in June 1962.
In 2000 the station was Grade II listed.
A great deal of further detail on the history of this station and the entire section of line between Dorking and Horsham can be found in John Harrod's Up The Dorking.

Services

For most of the day there is one train per hour southbound to Horsham and there is also one train per hour northbound towards London Victoria via Sutton and Clapham Junction. However, in the Monday to Friday morning peak northbound and the evening peak southbound there are some additional services on an approximately half-hourly basis.
From May 2018, there is an hourly mid and late evening service operating between Horsham and London, operating Monday to Friday.
There is no Sunday service from this station.

Facilities

The station has free parking for around 17 cars in the Station Approach. There is no taxi rank. There is a BT payphone in front of the station building. There are no buses that serve the station itself.

Journey times

Journey times now vary between 63 and 76 minutes to London Victoria compared to times of between only 51 and 60 minutes as recently as 1992.