Ford railway station

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 mi down the line from London Bridge via Redhill. The station and the trains serving it are operated by Southern.

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 from the West Coastway line to the Arun Valley Line and 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.

Services
All services at Ford are operated by Southern using class EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 * 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

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.