Pulborough railway station

Pulborough
Pulborough
General information
Location	Pulborough, Horsham, West Sussex; England
Grid reference	TQ042186
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	PUL
Classification	DfT category D
Key dates
10 October 1859	Opened
Passengers
2018/19	0.379 million
2019/20	0.369 million
2020/21	71,754
2021/22	0.224 million
2022/23	0.286 million
Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Pulborough railway station serves the West Sussex village of Pulborough. It is at the western end of the village, just off the A283 road. It is 50 miles (80 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill.

History[edit]

The first railway to reach Pulborough was that from Horsham to Petworth, opened on 10 October 1859 and extended to Midhurst in 1866. Pulborough and Billingshurst were the only two intermediate stations at the time. Four years later a link was made to the Brighton to Portsmouth line; the new line diverged from the Petworth branch at Hardham Junction just south of Pulborough.

Three platform faces were provided: a Down side platform on which the main station buildings stood, and an island platform whose western face was used by Midhurst line trains. ^[1]By World War II, these terminated at Pulborough rather than running to Horsham or beyond. Goods facilities and a cattle market were provided.^[1]^[2]

Passenger train services to Midhurst and Petersfield were withdrawn in 1955, leaving just the Arun Valley Line serving Pulborough. The goods yard was closed in the mid-1960s and converted into a car park, and the goods shed is now a car repair centre. The station buildings, including a large, wide canopy on the island platform, remain largely unchanged but only two platform faces are now in use. The former up loop line used by Midhurst line trains has been removed.

Services[edit]

All services at Pulborough are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[3]

2 tph to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
2 tph to Bognor Regis

On Sundays, there is an hourly service in each direction, but with southbound trains dividing at Barnham before travelling to Portsmouth Harbour and Bognor Regis .

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station
Billingshurst		Southern Arun Valley Line	Amberley or Arundel
	Disused railways
Terminus		London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Midhurst Railways	Fittleworth

Gallery[edit]

Northward view with London Victoria train that has departed the station
Southward view from the island platform
Another general southward view
The signal box and filled-in Midhurst platform
Station buildings from the platforms
Station buildings with a Portsmouth-bound train arriving at Platform 2 in the foreground.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1986). Southern Main Lines – Crawley to Littlehampton. Midhurst: Middleton Press. pp. not cited. ISBN 0-906520-34-7.
^ Body, Geoffrey (1984). PSL Field Guide – Railways of the Southern Region. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens Ltd. pp. not cited. ISBN 0-85059-664-5.
^ Table 186 National Rail timetable, December 2022

External links[edit]

Train times and station information for Pulborough railway station from National Rail

50°57′25″N 0°31′01″W / 50.957°N 0.517°W / 50.957; -0.517

[South-1] Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1986). Southern Main Lines – Crawley to Littlehampton. Midhurst: Middleton Press. pp. not cited. ISBN 0-906520-34-7.

[2] Body, Geoffrey (1984). PSL Field Guide – Railways of the Southern Region. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens Ltd. pp. not cited. ISBN 0-85059-664-5.

[3] Table 186 National Rail timetable, December 2022

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