Woking railway station

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Woking
Location
Place	Woking
Local authority	Woking
Operations
Managed by	South West Trains
Platforms in use	6
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	6.202 million
2005/06 *	6.350 million
History
Key dates	Opened 21 May 1838
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Woking from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Woking railway station is a railway station in England, serving the town of Woking, Surrey. It is a major stop on the South Western Main Line and is used by many commuters. There are several lines which call at this station include:

• the Alton Line calling at stations to Alton
• the Portsmouth Direct Line to Guildford and stations to Portsmouth
• the South Western Main Line to Winchester, Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole, Weymouth and the south coast
• the West of England Main Line to Salisbury, Dorset, Exeter and stations in South West England
• Woking station also is the southern terminus for the Waterloo to Woking stopping service

In particular, it is important to note that long distance trains on the West of England Main Line are often only advertised as going to Salisbury station. However, when the train arrives at Salisbury it is simply relabelled and continues on to Dorset, Exeter and the south west.

Fast trains from Woking take approximately twenty-six minutes to reach Waterloo (some stop at Clapham Junction). Trains from the Alton Line take roughly thirty-five minutes, and the stopping service fifty minutes, to Waterloo.

A twice-hourly RailAir bus service runs between the terminus located beside the station and Heathrow Airport, a journey of about fifty minutes.

Woking Station was destroyed in H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds.

[edit] Platforms

Woking Station has six platforms.

• Platform 1 - Fast and semi-fast London Trains. Situated on the north side of the station.
• Platform 2 - Fast London services
• Platform 3 - Stopping service to/from London. Situated at the easternmost end of platforms 2/4.
• Platform 4 - Fast trains to Basingstoke, Southampton, Weymouth, Salisbury and Exeter.
• Platform 5 - Portsmouth line, Alton line, Basingstoke stopping
• Platform 6 - a south facing bay platform, rarely used in passenger service due to its restrictive length of 4 coaches. Often used to stable diesel locomotives in the event of a train failure.

[edit] Services

• 14tph to London Waterloo, of which:
  • 4tph run non-stop
  • 4tph call at Clapham Junction
  • 2tph call at Weybridge and Walton on Thames and Surbiton, of which:
    • 1tph call at Clapham Junction (xx.29), and 1tph does not {xx.59)
  • 2tph call at West Byfleet and Surbiton, of which:
    • 1tph calls at Clapham Junction (xx.22), and 1tph does not (xx.52)
  • 2tph call at all stations apart from Berrylands, New Malden, Raynes Park and Queenstown Road (xx.03) and (xx.33)

• 3tph on the Portsmouth Direct Line, of which
  • 2tph fast to Portsmouth Harbour
  • 1tph stopping to Portsmouth and Southsea

• 6tph on the South Western Main Line, of which
  • 2tph stopping to Basingstoke
  • 2tph to Alton
  • 1tph to Portsmouth Harbour via Basingstoke
  • 1tph to Weymouth
    • Two slower train to Weymouth and Poole pass through Woking - the only passenger services which does so

• 2tph on the West of England Main Line

[edit] External links

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Clapham Junction or London Waterloo		South West Trains Portsmouth Direct Line		Guildford
		South West Trains Portsmouth Direct Line Stopping Service		Worplesdon
Clapham Junction or London Waterloo		South West Trains South Western Main Line		Brookwood or Farnborough
Clapham Junction or London Waterloo		South West Trains West of England Main Line		Basingstoke
West Byfleet		South West Trains Alton Line		Brookwood
West Byfleet		South West Trains Waterloo to Woking stopping service		Terminus
Weybridge		South West Trains Waterloo to Basingstoke stopping service		Brookwood