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Ockley railway station serves the villages of Ockley and Capel in Surrey, England and is 1.4 miles (2.3 km) from Ockley village and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of the village of Capel. The station is 29 miles 20 chains (47.1 km) from London Waterloo station.[1] Ockley is managed by Southern which also provide the services.

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Ockley
General information
Location	Ockley, District of Mole Valley England
Grid reference	TQ164404
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	OLY
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Opened	1 May 1867
Passengers
2016/17	32,680
2017/18	34,738
2018/19	36,388
2019/20	37,946
2020/21	9,746
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

It opened as Ockley & Capel on 1 May 1867 as part of the London Brighton & South Coast Railway extension to Horsham. Its situation next to Le Steeres of Jayes Park brickworks (closed c 1914) and nearby Phorpres Works (now Clockhouse Works) allowed for substantial brickwork traffic for many years. Milk traffic was also important until the early 1930s when this trade was lost to road transport.

Goods traffic declined slowly over the next 30 years ceasing finally in June 1962.[2]^{[page needed]}

In 2000 the station was Grade II listed.[3]

A great deal of further detail on the history of this station and the entire section of line between Dorking and Horsham can be found in John Harrod's Up The Dorking.[4]

Services

All services at Ockley are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[5]

• 1 tph to London Victoria via Sutton
• 1 tph to Horsham

During the peak hours, the service is increased to 2 tph. There is no service on Saturday evenings (after approximately 18:30) or on Sundays.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Holmwood		Southern Sutton & Mole Valley Lines Monday-Saturday only		Warnham

Facilities

The station has parking for around 17 cars (15 normal spaces and two disabled) in the Station Approach.^{[citation needed]} There is no taxi rank. There is a BT payphone in front of the station building. There are no buses that serve the station itself.

Journey times

Journey times now vary between 63 and 76 minutes to London Victoria compared to times of between only 51 and 60 minutes as recently as 1992.[6]

References

External links

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

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