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Bookham railway station is in the village of

Great Bookham Great Bookham is a village in Surrey, England, one of six semi-urban spring line settlements between the towns of Leatherhead and Guildford. With the narrow strip parish of Little Bookham, it forms part of the Saxon settlement of ''Bocham'' ( ...

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, England. It also serves the adjacent village of

Little Bookham Little Bookham is a small, historic village in Surrey, England between Great Bookham and Effingham. It is home to several listed historical buildings, included in a large conservation area, along with Ye Olde Windsor Castle public house, Manor Ho ...

. It is down the line from . The station is managed by South Western Railway, which provides the majority of train services;

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also provides some peak-period services.

History

Bookham railway station was opened on 2 February 1885; the line at the time was owned by the

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. 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 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

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-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.

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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bookham Railway Station 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