Wanborough railway station is in Flexford,

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, England. It serves the villages of

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to the north and Wanborough to the south. South Western Railway operates the station and most of the trains that serve it.

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 ...

also provides a limited service. The station is on the Ascot to Guildford line and 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. ...

, from .

Services

South Western Railway runs trains every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday, and every 60 minutes on Sundays between and . A few Great Western Railway trains between and call at Wanborough.

History

The

London and South Western Railway The London and South Western Railway (LSWR, sometimes written L&SWR) was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922. Originating as the London and Southampton Railway, its network extended to Dorchester and Weymouth, to Salisbury, Exeter ...

opened the station on its Guildford to Aldershot line in 1891.

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

ways closed the station's signal box in 1966, on the day that it commissioned the then-new signal box at Ash Crossing. Ash Crossing signal box has itself since been decommissioned and demolished. BR made Wanborough unstaffed in 1987. The station is from Waterloo (measured via and milepost at ), and has two platforms, which can each accommodate a four-coach train. Much of Wanborough's train service has been remarkably unchanged over the years. A look at the historical website below shows for example: Wanborough (from Guildford) to Ascot service Mon-Fri after the morning rush hour in the following years: Year 1937: Times - Difficult to confirm all as times shown from Waterloo but basically at 0934, 1005 then at :35 and :05 till 2205 and then some later trains Year 1939: Times 0937, 1007, 1039, 1109, 1137, 1237 and half-hourly to 0007 (next morning) Year 1957: Times 0937, 1007, 1039, 1109, 1137, 1237, 1307, 1309, 1407, 1439, 1507, 1537, 1609, 1637, 1709, 1739, 1809, 1840, 1907, 1937, 2010, 2037, 2109, 2207, 2237,2307 (last service one hour earlier than in 1939) Year 2010: Times 0936 and half-hourly till 2306

References

External links

Wanborough Station, local history site
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