1. History

2. Platforms

3. Services

4. In popular culture

5. Notes

6. References

7. External links

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Woking railway station is a major stop in Woking, England, on the South Western Main Line used by many commuters. It is {{convert|24|mi|27|chain|km}} down the line from {{stn|London Waterloo}}. The station is managed by South Western Railway, who operate all trains serving it. Many South Western Railway services call at Woking, including:

• 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 and Weymouth
• the West of England Main Line to Andover, Salisbury and Exeter
• The station is a terminus of the Waterloo to Woking stopping service

Fast trains from Woking take approximately 26 minutes to reach London Waterloo (some stop at Clapham Junction). Trains from the Alton Line take roughly 35 minutes, and the stopping service 50 minutes, to Waterloo.

An hourly National Express bus service runs between the terminus beside the station and Heathrow Airport, a journey of about 50 minutes.

History

The London and Southampton Railway (L&SR) was authorised on 25 July 1834.{{sfn|Williams|1968|p=20}} It was built and opened in stages, and the first section, that between the London terminus at {{stnlnk|Nine Elms}} and Woking Common was opened on 21 May 1838.{{sfn|Williams|1968|pp=35–36}} Woking Common became a through station with the opening of the next section of the line, as far as {{stnlnk|Winchfield}}, on 24 September that year.{{sfn|Williams|1968|p=38}} On 4 June 1839, the L&SR was renamed the London and South Western Railway (LSWR),{{sfn|Williams|1968|p=122}} and Woking Common station assumed its current name of Woking around 1843.{{sfn|Butt|1995|p=253}}

Woking became a junction with the opening of the Guildford Junction Railway (GJR) on 5 May 1845;{{sfn|Williams|1968|p=132}} it had been authorised less than a year earlier, on 10 May 1844.{{sfn|Williams|1968|p=126}} The GJR was always operated by the LSWR, and was absorbed by that company on 4 August 1845.{{sfn|Awdry|1990|p=187}}

The signal box, built by the Southern Railway, is a Grade II listed building.^[1]

Platforms

Woking Station has six platforms, two of which act as termini with buffers.

• Platform 1 – Semi-fast and fast London-bound trains. Adjoins the main station house and town centre to the north.
• Platform 2 – Fast London services. Part of a single island with 3 and 4 below.
• Platform 3 – Stopping service to/from London, terminus. At the far east end of platforms 2 to 4.
• Platform 4 – Fast trains to Basingstoke, Southampton, Weymouth, Salisbury and Exeter.
• Platform 5 – Portsmouth line, Alton line, Basingstoke stopping.
• Platform 6 – a west-facing bay platform, terminus, the first train of the day to Portsmouth Harbour via Eastleigh starts from this platform, and it is often used to stable diesel locomotives in the event of a train failure.{{cn|date=May 2018}}

Services

• 14tph to London Waterloo^[2]
• 4tph on the Portsmouth Direct Line
• 2tph on the West of England Main Line to Salisbury^[3]
• 6tph on the South Western Main Line

In popular culture

• The station was destroyed in H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.{{sfn|Wells|1975|p=59}}
• Woking Station can be seen throughout the 1995 music video for 'You Do Something To Me' by Paul Weller.^[4]
• In the television adaptation of the Philip K. Dick story "The Commuter" for the series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, railway worker Ed Jacobson (played by Timothy Spall) works at Woking station, and discovers a non-existent destination on the Alton line.^[5]

Notes

References

• {{cite book |last=Awdry |first=Christopher |authorlink=Christopher Awdry |title=Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies |year=1990 |publisher=Guild Publishing |location=London |id=CN 8983 |ref=harv }}
• {{cite book |last=Butt |first=R.V.J. |title=The Directory of Railway Stations |year=1995 |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |location=Yeovil |isbn=1-85260-508-1 |id=R508 |ref=harv }}
• {{cite book |last=Wells |first=H.G. |authorlink=H. G. Wells |title=The War of the Worlds |year=1975 |origyear=1898 |publisher=Pan Books |location=London |isbn=0-330-24332-2 |ref=harv }}
• {{cite book |last=Williams |first=R.A. |title=The London & South Western Railway, volume 1: The Formative Years |year=1968 |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbot |isbn=0-7153-4188-X |ref=harv }}
• Woking Borough Council, 'Woking's railway'

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