Horsley railway station

51°16′44″N 0°26′06″W / 51.279°N 0.435°W / 51.279; -0.435Grid referenceTQ092545Managed bySouth Western RailwayPlatforms2Other informationStation codeHSYClassificationDfT category DHistoryOriginal companyLondon and South Western RailwayPre-groupingLondon and South Western RailwayPost-groupingSouthern RailwayKey dates2 February 1885 (1885-02-02)^[1]Opened as Horsley and Ockham and RipleyDecember 1914Renamed HorsleyPassengers2018/19 0.421 million2019/20 0.383 million2020/21 54,9262021/22 0.199 million2022/23 0.279 million Notes

Horsley railway station is located in the village of East Horsley in Surrey, England. It is 22 miles 16 chains (35.7 km) down the line from London Waterloo, and also serves the village of West Horsley, 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 Epsom rather than Cobham.

History

The railway lines connecting Hampton Court Junction (near Surbiton) and Leatherhead with Guildford via Effingham Junction were proposed in 1880 and authorised to be constructed by the London and South Western Railway. They opened on 2 February 1885.^[2] 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".^[3]

Services

All services at Horsley are operated by South Western Railway using Class 455 EMUs.^[4]

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[5]

• 3 tph to London Waterloo (2 of these run via Cobham and 1 runs via Epsom)
• 3 tph to Guildford

Additional services run via Epsom during the peak hours, increasing the service to 4 tph in each direction.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Effingham Junction		South Western Railway New Guildford Line		Clandon

On television

Horsley station doubled as Middleton station in the 1990s BBC1 show Pie in the Sky and appeared briefly in the 1984 spy thriller The Jigsaw Man with Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier.^{[citation needed]}

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;^[6] he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.^[7]

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