Shalford railway station serves the village of
Shalford, Surrey
Shalford is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England on the A281 Horsham road immediately south of Guildford. It has a railway station which is between Guildford and Dorking on the Reading to Gatwick Airport line.
It has one named locali ...
, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
. It is on the
North Downs Line
The North Downs Line is a passenger-train line connecting Reading, on the Great Western Main Line, to Redhill and , along the Brighton Main Line, linking many centres of population in that part of the North Downs which it traverses en route.
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. The station is from , and has two platforms, which can each accommodate a six-coach train. To the west is Shalford Junction, from Charing Cross, where the North Downs Line meets the
Portsmouth Direct Line from
Waterloo (via ).
History
In 1940, Shalford was a sub-control centre coordinating the evacuation trains dispersing the soldiers brought back from
Dunkirk
Dunkirk (french: Dunkerque ; vls, label=French Flemish, Duunkerke; nl, Duinkerke(n) ; , ;) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France.[Home Guard
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The term "home guard" was first officially used in the American Civil War, starting wi ...]
volunteers, who used sandbags to contain the spread of the burning fuel. Nearby properties, including a potato and vegetable store, were badly damaged as was the steel road bridge over the railway that was buckled by the heat. The local pub, the ''Queen Victoria'', escaped unharmed.
Services
, the typical off-peak service is one train per hour to and one to . Additional services from Reading terminate at Shalford in peak hours.
[GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 148 (Network Rail)]
Between Guildford and Redhill the stopping service pattern alternates every two hours off-peak:
In peak hours the stopping service serves all stations in both directions.
On Sundays, all services are extended to , but the service is two-hourly in each direction.
References
External links
{{Transport in Surrey
Railway stations in Surrey
Former South Eastern Railway (UK) stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849
Railway stations served by Great Western Railway
1849 establishments in England