Pulborough railway station

Pulborough
Location
Place	Pulborough
Local authority	Horsham, West Sussex
Grid reference	TQ042186
Operations
Station code	PUL
Managed by	Southern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	D
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.450 million
2011/12	0.418 million
2012/13	0.425 million
2013/14	0.430 million
2014/15	0.422 million
History
10 October 1859	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Pulborough from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Pulborough railway station serves the West Sussex village of Pulborough. It is at the western end of the village, just off the A283 road.

History

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. 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Passenger train services to Midhurst and Petersfield were withdrawn in 1955, leaving just the Arun Valley Line serving Pulborough.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 with only two platform faces are now in use. The former up loop line used by Midhurst line trains has been removed.

Services

The typical Monday-Saturday off peak service is:

• 2 trains per hour (tph) to London Victoria
• 2 tph to Bognor Regis

On Sundays this is reduced to:

• 1 tph to London Victoria
• 1 tph to Bognor Regis

Gallery

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

References

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.

External links

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

Coordinates: 50°57′25″N 0°31′01″W / 50.957°N 0.517°W