Barnham railway station is in Barnham, West Sussex, England around north of

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. It is located on the West Coastway Line between Brighton and

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, down the line from via . The station and all services are operated by Southern which operate at the station using Classes 313 and 377s EMUs

Platforms

Barnham is the junction station for the short branch to

. It is also a well-used interchange for passengers between slow and fast services. It has services to

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via

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, Brighton,

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and the occasional long-distance services to the

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. Trains travelling from east to west (i.e. heading towards Chichester and Bognor Regis) sometimes divide at Barnham. *Platform 1 - Bognor Regis from Barnham & Littlehampton, London Victoria via Horsham (Sundays) *Platform 2 - Westbound services towards Chichester, Portsmouth and Southampton, Bognor Regis from London *Platform 3 - Eastbound services towards Littlehampton, Brighton, London

Services

All services at Barnham are operated by Southern using and EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 4 tph to via (2 of these run non-stop to Horsham and 2 are stopping services - the fast and stopping services attach at Horsham, giving 2 tph to London Victoria beyond Horsham) * 2 tph to via * 2 tph to * 4 tph to * 2 tph to * 3 tph to of which 1 continues to

Former services

Until May 2022, Great Western Railway operated limited services between Brighton,

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and

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that called at Barnham.

Accidents and incidents

*On 1 August 1962, an electric multiple unit was derailed when points switched under it due to an electrical fault. Thirty-eight people were injured. The cause was an electrical short circuit due to a metal washer that had been left behind after maintenance, which caused a false feed to the points motor under unusual circumstances with a very high power load from three trains accelerating simultaneously. Adrian Vaughan commented; "One gets a nasty feeling wondering where the next washer is, at this moment, lying in wait with the potential of mayhem". Before his book had even been published, the Clapham Junction disaster occurred, with a very similar cause.

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