Crawley railway station
Crawley Southern | |
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Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | CRW |
Classification | DfT category D |
Key dates | |
14 February 1848 | Opening of original station |
28 July 1968 | Closure of original station and opening of present station to the east |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 1.747 million |
Interchange | 2,560 |
2019/20 | 1.698 million |
Interchange | 2,462 |
2020/21 | 0.488 million |
Interchange | 954 |
2021/22 | 1.005 million |
Interchange | 2,152 |
2022/23 | 1.161 million |
Interchange | 3,065 |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Crawley railway station is a railway station serving the town of
History
The single track branch line of the
The first Crawley station was situated immediately adjacent to the main High Street, with station buildings on the north side of the railway line.[3]
With the continued development of the
A planning application[5] was approved on 16 August 2016 for the demolition and redevelopment of the station buildings to include residential apartments, retail space and multi-storey car parking.
In 2020, an accessible footbridge with lifts was installed. It was due to open by autumn 2020.[6]
Facilities
- Concourse
- Ticket office (×2)
- Quick Ticket
- Vending machine
- Pumpkin Cafe
- Waiting room (×2)
- Toilets
- Car park
- Bicycle storage
- Ticket barriers
Services
Services at Crawley are operated by Southern and Thameslink using Class 377 and 700 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[7]
- 2 tph to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
- 2 tph to Peterborough via Gatwick Airport, London Bridge and Stevenage
- 2 tph to Horsham (stopping)
- 1 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea and Bognor Regis, dividing at Horsham
- 1 tph to Southampton Central and Bognor Regis, dividing at Horsham
On Sundays, there is an hourly Southern service between London Victoria and Bognor Regis and Portsmouth Harbour, which divides at Barnham (instead of Horsham), and an hourly Thameslink service between Horsham and Bedford (instead of Peterborough).
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Arun Valley Line | ||||
Arun Valley Line | ||||
Limited service |
Signal box
The original signal box, dating from 1877, survives. It is a tall box with a timber superstructure on a brick base and was built by the firm of Saxby and Farmer.[8] It was made redundant in 1978 when the railway level crossing gates were removed. It is a Grade II listed building[9] and has recently been partially restored.
The former goods yard to the east of the old Crawley Station was closed in the 1960s and demolished to make way for the new station.
References
- ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
- ISBN 978-0-7134-0275-9. 232-4.
- ^ Bastable, Roger (1999). No.1 Crawley High Street in Photographs. Crawley: Roger Bastable Publications. pp. 54–57.
- ISBN 978-1-85260-297-0.
- ^ "Planning Application - CR/2016/0294/OUT".
- ^ Holden, Michael (13 July 2020). "Major upgrade of Crawley reaches milestone in £5.8m project". RailAdvent. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ Table 183, 185, 186 National Rail timetable, May 2020
- ISSN 2046-9799. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. 9.
- ^ "Railway Signal Box, Crawley, West Sussex".
External links
- Train times and station information for Crawley railway station from National Rail