Barnham railway station is in Barnham, West Sussex, England around 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Bognor Regis.

Barnham
General information
Location	Barnham, Arun, West Sussex England
Grid reference	SU958043
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	BAA
Classification	DfT category D
History
Opened	1 June 1864
Passengers
2016/17	0.904 million
Interchange	0.684 million
2017/18	0.955 million
Interchange	0.764 million
2018/19	1.005 million
Interchange	0.820 million
2019/20	0.972 million
Interchange	0.788 million
2020/21	0.397 million
Interchange	0.275 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

It is located on the West Coastway Line between Brighton and Southampton, 63 miles 22 chains (101.8 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill. The station and all services are operated by Southern. The station is served by 313 and 377s.

Platforms

Barnham is the junction station for the short branch to Bognor Regis. It is also a well-used interchange for passengers between slow and fast services. It has services to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport, Brighton, Portsmouth, Southampton, Littlehampton via Ford and the occasional long-distance services to the West Country. Trains travelling from east to west (i.e. heading towards Chichester and Bognor Regis) sometimes divide at Barnham.

• Platform 1 - Bognor Regis from Barnham & Littlehampton, London Victoria via Horsham (Sundays)
• Platform 2 - Westbound services towards Chichester, Portsmouth and Southampton, Bognor Regis from London
• Platform 3 - Eastbound services towards Littlehampton, Brighton, London

Services

All services at Barnham are operated by Southern using Class 313 and 377 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[1]

• 4 tph to London Victoria via Horsham (2 of these run non-stop to Horsham and 2 are stopping services - the fast and stopping services attach at Horsham, giving 2 tph to London Victoria beyond Horsham)
• 2 tph to Brighton via Worthing
• 2 tph to Littlehampton
• 4 tph to Bognor Regis
• 2 tph to Southampton Central
• 3 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea of which 2 continue to Portsmouth Harbour

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Ford or Horsham		Southern Arun Valley Line		Chichester
Ford or Angmering		Southern West Coastway Line
Ford		Southern West Coastway Line Bognor Regis Branch		Bognor Regis

Former services

Until May 2022, Great Western Railway operated limited services between Brighton, Portsmouth Harbour and Bristol Temple Meads that called at Barnham.[2][3]

Accidents and incidents

• On 1 August 1962, an electric multiple unit was derailed when points switched under it due to an electrical fault. Thirty-eight people were injured.[4][5] The cause was an electrical short circuit due to a metal washer that had been left behind after maintenance, which caused a false feed to the points motor under unusual circumstances with a very high power load from three trains accelerating simultaneously. Adrian Vaughan commented; "One gets a nasty feeling wondering where the next washer is, at this moment, lying in wait with the potential of mayhem".[6] Before his book had even been published, the Clapham Junction disaster occurred, with a very similar cause.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Barnham (Sussex) railway station.

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