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 miles 48 chains (97.5 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill. The station and the trains serving it are operated by Southern.

Ford
General information
Location	Ford (Arundel), Arun, West Sussex England
Grid reference	TQ002042
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2 (was 3)
Other information
Station code	FOD
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	8 June 1846
Passengers
2016/17	95,982
Interchange	87,852
2017/18	0.115 million
Interchange	97,168
2018/19	0.118 million
Interchange	0.102 million
2019/20	0.117 million
Interchange	0.103 million
2020/21	49,220
Interchange	37,136
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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
• 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.[1]

Services

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

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[2]

• 2 tph to London Victoria via Horsham
• 2 tph to Brighton via Worthing
• 2 tph to Littlehampton
• 3 tph to Bognor Regis
• 2 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea of which 1 continues to Portsmouth Harbour
• 1 tph to Southampton Central

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Angmering		Southern West Coastway Line		Barnham
Littlehampton		Southern West Coastway Line Littlehampton Branch
Arundel		Southern Arun Valley Line

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.[3][4]

Gallery

• 
  General view looking east.
• 
  Platform 1 buildings.
• 
  Platform 2 buildings.

References

External links

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