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Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Ford
Ford
General information
Location	Ford (Arundel), Arun, West Sussex; England
Grid reference	TQ002042
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2 (was 3)
Other information
Station code	FOD
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	8 June 1846
Passengers
2019/20	0.117 million
Interchange	0.103 million
2020/21	49,220
Interchange	37,136
2021/22	92,108
Interchange	79,674
2022/23	94,128
Interchange	97,834
2023/24	0.106 million
Interchange	0.102 million
Notes
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. The station is on a notably busy section of line and has low capacity; due to this delays are frequent especially to the east of the station. The line to the east of the station has a visibly high gradient, from the view from the platform, as the track climes over the high banked River Arun. A busy level crossing is also found to the east of the station ,before the river bridge.

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 where the Arun Valley Line and the west coastway line. Due to the geometry of the junction it is impossible for trains to run from the Arun Valley line towards Brighton without changing direction in littleHampton. To the west of the ‘Arun valley junction’ a triangular junction connecting the West Coastway to 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]

2 tph to London Victoria via Horsham
3 tph to Brighton (1 of these runs via Littlehampton)
2 tph to Bognor Regis
2 tph to Southampton Central
1 tph to Chichester

Preceding station		Following station
Angmering	Southern West Coastway Line	Barnham
Littlehampton	Southern West Coastway Line Littlehampton Branch
Arundel	Southern Arun Valley Line

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]

Gallery

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

References

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