Crawley railway station
Crawley  | |
|---|---|
 Crawley Railway Station | |
| General information | |
| Location | Crawley, Borough of Crawley, West Sussex England |
| Grid reference | TQ270363 |
| Managed by | Southern |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | CRW |
| Classification | DfT category D |
| Key dates | |
| 14 February 1848 | Opening of original station |
| 28 July 1968 | Closure of original station and opening of present station to the east |
| Passengers | |
| 2018/19 |  1.747 million |
| Interchange |  2,560 |
| 2019/20 |  1.698 million |
| Interchange | 2,462 |
| 2020/21 | 0.488 million |
| Interchange | 954 |
| 2021/22 | 1.005 million |
| Interchange | 2,152 |
| 2022/23 | 1.161 million |
| Interchange | 3,065 |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
Crawley railway station is a railway station serving the town of Crawley in West Sussex, England. It is 30 miles 49 chains (49.3 km) down the line from London Bridge, measured via Redhill.[1] It is operated by Southern. The station is the last stop on the Arun Valley Line before it joins the Brighton Main Line.
History[edit]
The single track branch line of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway between Three Bridges and Horsham was opened on 14 February 1848.[2] Crawley and Faygate were intermediate stations, each with two platforms to enable trains to pass. The line was doubled throughout during 1862 to coincide with the extension of the railway from Horsham to the Arun Valley.
The first Crawley station was situated immediately adjacent to the main High Street, with station buildings on the north side of the railway line.[3]
With the continued development of the New Town during the 1950s and 1960s it soon became clear that the station was too small, and a new station building was opened 28 July 1968 at the current site.[4] The new station was funded by a six-storey commercial development above the new British Rail station. The original station buildings were demolished in August 1968, but the platforms still survive.
A planning application[5] was approved on 16 August 2016 for the demolition and redevelopment of the station buildings to include residential apartments, retail space and multi-storey car parking.
In 2020, an accessible footbridge with lifts was installed. It was due to open by autumn 2020.[6]
Facilities[edit]
- Concourse
- Ticket office (×2)
- Quick Ticket
- Vending machine
- Pumpkin Cafe
- Waiting room (×2)
- Toilets
- Car park
- Bicycle storage
- Ticket barriers
Services[edit]
Services at Crawley are operated by Southern and Thameslink using Class 377 and 700 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[7]
- 2 tph to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
- 2 tph to Peterborough via Gatwick Airport, London Bridge and Stevenage
- 2 tph to Horsham (stopping)
- 1 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea and Bognor Regis, dividing at Horsham
- 1 tph to Southampton Central and Bognor Regis, dividing at Horsham
On Sundays, there is an hourly Southern service between London Victoria and Bognor Regis and Portsmouth Harbour, which divides at Barnham (instead of Horsham), and an hourly Thameslink service between Horsham and Bedford (instead of Peterborough).
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Thameslink | ||||
| Southern | ||||
Limited service |
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Signal box[edit]
The original signal box, dating from 1877, survives. It is a tall box with a timber superstructure on a brick base and was built by the firm of Saxby and Farmer.[8] It was made redundant in 1978 when the railway level crossing gates were removed. It is a Grade II listed building[9] and has recently been partially restored.
The former goods yard to the east of the old Crawley Station was closed in the 1960s and demolished to make way for the new station.
References[edit]
- ^ Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 19B. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
- ^ *Howard Turner, Charles (1977). The London Brighton and South Coast Railway. 1 Origins and Formation (1st ed.). London: Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-0275-9. 232-4.
- ^ Bastable, Roger (1999). No.1 Crawley High Street in Photographs. Crawley: Roger Bastable Publications. pp. 54–57.
- ^ Body, Geoffrey (1989). PSL field guide to the railways of Southern Region. Wellinborough: Patrick stephens Ltd. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-85260-297-0.
- ^ "Planning Application - CR/2016/0294/OUT".
- ^ Holden, Michael (13 July 2020). "Major upgrade of Crawley reaches milestone in £5.8m project". RailAdvent. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ Table 183, 185, 186 National Rail timetable, May 2020
- ^ *Minnis, John (2012). Railway Signal Boxes: a Review (PDF) (1st ed.). London: Ebglish Heritage. ISSN 2046-9799. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. 9.
- ^ "Railway Signal Box, Crawley, West Sussex".
External links[edit]
- Train times and station information for Crawley railway station from National Rail
- Buildings and structures in Crawley
- Transport in Crawley
- Railway stations in West Sussex
- DfT Category D stations
- Former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
- Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1968
- Railway stations opened by British Rail
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1968
- Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway
- 1848 establishments in England