Farnham railway station

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Farnham

Location

Place

Farnham

Local authority

Waverley

Operations

Station code

FNH

Managed by

South West Trains

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

1.126 million

2005/06 *

1.173 million

History

Key dates

Opened 8 October 1849

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

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Farnham railway station serves the town of Farnham in Surrey. It is located on Station Hill by the level crossing that carries the Alton Line across the B3001 secondary road. The town centre is about ten minutes away on foot, to the north of the A31 Farnham Bypass. The start of the North Downs Way, a long distance footpath, is signposted near to the main entrance to the station. Farnham College is five minutes walk away in a southerly direction.

Train services are provided by South West Trains, with direct trains running to Aldershot, Alton, Woking, Surbiton, Clapham Junction and London Waterloo.

Trains are formed of modern Siemens Class 450 electric multiple units (primarily blue in colour) and Class 444 (primarily white). Steam trains and freight trains are seen quite often, travelling from/to the Watercress Line and Holybourne oil terminal.

There is a buffet in the booking hall selling newspapers, hot and cold beverages, confectionery, snacks, hot food and tobacco products.

1 History
2 Farnham station in fiction
- 2.1 Sherlock Holmes
3 Services
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

The station was opened on 8 October 1849, on a route from Guildford via Ash Green and Tongham^[1]. The line from Aldershot station opened in 1870 and was electrified on 4 July 1937. Passenger services via Ash Green station and Tongham station ceased on the same date.

[edit] Farnham station in fiction

[edit] Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson travelled by train to Farnham in "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist". Holmes said, "A beautiful neighbourhood and full of the most interesting associations. You remember, Watson, that it was near there that we took Archie Stamford, the forger."

Watson recounted, "We had ascertained from the lady that she went down upon the Monday by the train which leaves Waterloo at 9.50, so I started early and caught the 9.13." He did this on Monday 25 April 1895. Holmes himself travelled to Farnham the next day, returning to Baker Street "late in the evening with a cut lip and a discoloured lump upon his forehead, besides a general air of dissipation which would have made his own person the fitting object of a Scotland Yard investigation".