Farncombe railway station

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Farncombe

Location

Place

Farncombe

Local authority

Waverley

Operations

Managed by

South West Trains

Platforms in use

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.592 million

2005/06 *

0.582 million

History

Key dates

Opened 1897

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Farncombe from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Farncombe railway station opened in 1897 as a minor stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line between Guildford and Godalming. It is said to have been built at the instigation of General Sir Frederick Marshall, a director of the London and South Western Railway Company, who lived nearby at Broadwater ^[1].

The station lies in the centre of Farncombe, a northern suburb of Godalming. Nowadays it is served by South West Trains on the mainline from Waterloo to Portsmouth Harbour. It would have been served by the old Southern Railway.

[edit] Services

The classes of trains that use it are South West Trains class 444s and 450s with occasional freight workings. There are two stopping trains an hour and two fast trains an hour in each direction.