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Ifield railway station

Coordinates: 51°06′58″N 0°12′54″W / 51.116°N 0.215°W / 51.116; -0.215
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Ifield
National Rail
General information
LocationIfield, Crawley, West Sussex
England
Grid referenceTQ250366
Managed bySouthern
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeIFI
ClassificationDfT category E
Key dates
1 June 1907Opened (Lyons Crossing Halt)
6 July 1907Renamed (Ifield Halt)
1 January 1917Closed
3 May 1920Reopened
6 July 1930[1]Renamed (Ifield)
Passengers
2018/19Increase 0.330 million
2019/20Increase 0.332 million
2020/21Decrease 87,232
2021/22Increase 0.185 million
2022/23Increase 0.232 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Ifield railway station (pronounced 'Eye-field') serves the neighbourhoods of Ifield and Gossops Green in the West Sussex town of Crawley, England. It is on the Arun Valley Line, 31 miles 66 chains (51.2 km) down the line from London Bridge, measured via Redhill.[2] Train services are provided by Thameslink and Southern.

History

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The station was opened on 1 June 1907 as Lyons Crossing Halt, although it became known as Ifield Halt later that year. It was one of a series of unstaffed intermediate halts set up by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway, to be worked by rail motor trains. It became known simply as Ifield station from 1930.[3]

Services

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Off-peak, all services at Ifield are operated by Thameslink using Class 700 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[4]

The station is also served by a limited number of Southern services to London Victoria, Bognor Regis, Portsmouth & Southsea and Southampton Central.

On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction and northbound services run to and from Bedford instead of Peterborough.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Crawley   Thameslink
  Faygate or Littlehaven
  Southern
 

References

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  1. ^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 126.
  2. ^ Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 19B. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
  3. ^ Hudson, T.P., ed. (1987). "Ifield". A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 3: Bramber Rape (North-Eastern Part) including Crawley New Town. Oxford: Institute of Historical Research by Oxford University Press. pp. 53–60. ISBN 0-19-722768-6. Retrieved 21 January 2007.
  4. ^ Table 183 National Rail timetable, May 2023
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51°06′58″N 0°12′54″W / 51.116°N 0.215°W / 51.116; -0.215