Ford railway station is a railway station in
Ford
Ford commonly refers to:
* Ford Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford
* Ford (crossing), a shallow crossing on a river
Ford may also refer to:
Ford Motor Company
* Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
* Ford F ...
,
West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ...
, England. It is located on the
West Coastway Line which runs between
Brighton and
Southampton
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and it is down the line from via . The station and the trains serving it are operated by
Southern.
Location
Ford serves a rural community with only a few houses and one pub nearby,
HMP Ford is about one mile south of the station. Adjacent to the station is the large model railway shop Gaugemaster.
Ford station is close to the junction from the West Coastway line to the
Arun Valley Line
The Arun Valley line, also known as the Mid Sussex line, is part of the Southern- and Thameslink-operated railway services. For the initial part of the route trains follow the Brighton Main Line, and at a junction south of Three Bridges the r ...
and the short branch to
Littlehampton
Littlehampton is a town, seaside resort, and pleasure harbour, and the most populous civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the English Channel on the eastern bank of the mouth of the River Arun. It is south sout ...
. It is sometimes used as an interchange for those lines, however, due to the station's lack of facilities, most passengers prefer to change at
Barnham.
Facilities
Ford station has a ticket office which is open for part of the day. There are
PERTIS
In the ticketing system of the British rail network, a Permit to Travel provisionally allows passengers to travel on a train when they have not purchased a ticket in advance and the ticket office of the station they are travelling from is closed ...
'Permit to Travel' passenger-operated ticket-issuing machines available at the entrances from the road to both platforms at those times when the ticket office is closed.
Ford was a 3 platform station but one platform was closed and is now abandoned and overgrown.
*Ticket office (1 Window)
*Waiting Rooms x2
*Vending Machine (Sells Tea & Coffee)
*Toilets
*Post Box
*Sheltered seating around the station
*Departure Boards (1 on both platforms)
*Subway (linking platforms)
*Car Park
Information
The station is staffed Monday-Saturday 06:30-13:20 and Sunday 08:10-15:40. It has CCTV installed.
Services
All services at Ford are operated by
Southern using and
EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
* 2 tph to via
* 2 tph to via
* 2 tph to
* 3 tph to
* 2 tph to of which 1 continues to
* 1 tph to
Accidents and incidents
On 5 August 1951, an
electric multiple unit overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with another at the station. Ten people were killed and 46 were injured.
Gallery
Image:Ford (Sussex) Station 03 (07-07-2007).JPG, General view looking east.
Image:Ford (Sussex) Station 02 (07-07-2007).JPG, Platform 1 buildings.
Image:Ford (Sussex) Station 07 (07-07-2007).JPG, Platform 2 buildings.
References
External links
{{TSGN and SE Stations, Coastway West=y, Mainline West=y, FCC None=y, SE None=y
Arun District
Railway stations in West Sussex
DfT Category E stations
Former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1846
Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway
1846 establishments in England