Ockley railway station serves the villages of

Ockley Ockley is a rural village in Surrey. It lies astride the A29, the modern road using the alignment of Stane Street (Chichester). The A29 diverges from the A24 from London about 2.5 miles northeast and takes the alignment of Stane Street a mile ...

and Capel in

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, England and is from Ockley village and west of the village of Capel. The station is from

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. Ockley is managed by

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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 Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby to ...

. Its situation next to Le Steeres of Jayes Park brickworks (closed c 1914) and nearby Phorpres Works (now Clockhouse 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

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. 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

All services at Ockley are operated by

using

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to via * 1 tph to During the peak hours, the service is increased to 2 tph. There is no service on Saturday evenings (after approximately 18:30) or on Sundays.

Facilities

The station has parking for around 17 cars (15 normal spaces and two disabled) 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.GB National Rail Timetable May 1992 Edition, Table 182

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{{TSGN and SE Stations, Mole Valley=y, FCC None=y, SE None=y Railway stations in Surrey Former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1867 Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway