Woking railway station

Woking
Location
Place	Woking
Local authority	Woking
Operations
Station code	WOK
Managed by	South West Trains
Platforms in use	6
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	6.202 million
2005/06 *	6.350 million
2006/07 *	6.731 million
2007/08 *	7.510 million
History
Opened 21 May 1838 (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

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.

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, often used to stable diesel locomotives in the event of a train failure.

Services

• 14tph to London Waterloo, of which:
  • 5tph run non-stop
  • 3tph 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 trains to Weymouth and Poole pass through Woking - the only passenger services which do so

• 2tph on the West of England Main Line
  • 1tph to Exeter St Davids
  • 1tph to Salisbury

External links

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

Coordinates: 51°19′05″N 0°33′25″W / 51.318°N 0.557°W / 51.318; -0.557