Ford railway station

For the former station in the Sefton borough, north of Liverpool, see Ford railway station (Merseyside).

Ford
National Rail
General information
LocationFord (Arundel), Arun, West Sussex
England
Grid referenceTQ002042
Managed bySouthern
Platforms2 (was 3)
Other information
Station codeFOD
ClassificationDfT category E
History
Opened8 June 1846
Passengers
2018/19Increase 0.118 million
 Interchange Increase 0.102 million
2019/20Decrease 0.117 million
 Interchange Increase 0.103 million
2020/21Decrease 49,220
 Interchange Decrease 37,136
2021/22Increase 92,108
 Interchange Increase 79,674
2022/23Increase 94,128
 Interchange Increase 97,834
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Ford railway station is a railway station in Ford, West Sussex, England. It is located on the West Coastway Line which runs between Brighton and Southampton and it is 60 miles 48 chains (97.5 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill. 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 and the short branch to Littlehampton. 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 '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 (closed Sundays)
  • 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.[1]

Services

All services at Ford are operated by Southern using class 377 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[2]

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Southern
Southern
Littlehampton Branch
Southern

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.[3][4][5]

  • General view looking east.
    General view looking east.
  • Platform 1 buildings.
    Platform 1 buildings.
  • Platform 2 buildings.
    Platform 2 buildings.

References

  1. ^ "Ford (FOD)". National Rail Enquiries. 12 February 2009.
  2. ^ "Timetable 28: Southampton and Portsmouth to Horsham and London" (PDF). Southern, December 2019.
  3. ^ Earnshaw, Alan (1991). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 7. Penryn: Atlantic Books. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-906899-50-2.
  4. ^ Moody, G. T. (1979) [1957]. Southern Electric 1909-1979 (Fifth ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 0-7110-0924-4.
  5. ^ Cresswell, Irvine (2010). "Ford 5 August 1951". The Southern Way (10): 72–77. ISBN 9781906419301.

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