Railway station in West Sussex, England
Location Ifield , Crawley , West Sussex Grid reference TQ250366 Managed by Southern Platforms 2 Station code IFI Classification DfT category E1 June 1907 Opened (Lyons Crossing Halt) 6 July 1907 Renamed (Ifield Halt) 1 January 1917 Closed 3 May 1920 Reopened 6 July 1930[ 1] Renamed (Ifield) 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23
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] Thameslink and Southern .
History
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
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.
References
^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations , Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1 , p. 126.
^ 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 ^ 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 53–60 . ISBN 0-19-722768-6 . Retrieved 21 January 2007 . ^ Table 183 National Rail timetable, May 2023
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Stations in italics are served on limited occasions, at peak hours or on Sundays only.
51°06′58″N 0°12′54″W / 51.116°N 0.215°W / 51.116; -0.215
