Barnham railway station

Barnham railway station is in Barnham, West Sussex, England around 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Bognor Regis.

Not to be confused with Barnham railway station (Suffolk).

Barnham
National Rail
General information
LocationBarnham, Arun, West Sussex
England
Grid referenceSU958043
Managed bySouthern
Platforms3
Other information
Station codeBAA
ClassificationDfT category D
History
Opened1 June 1864
Passengers
2017/18Increase 0.955 million
 Interchange Increase 0.764 million
2018/19Increase 1.005 million
 Interchange Increase 0.820 million
2019/20Decrease 0.972 million
 Interchange Decrease 0.788 million
2020/21Decrease 0.397 million
 Interchange Decrease 0.275 million
2021/22Increase 0.846 million
 Interchange Increase 0.626 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road
Station in 1961

It is located on the West Coastway Line between Brighton and Southampton, 63 miles 22 chains (101.8 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill. The station and all services are operated by Southern which operate at the station using Class 377 EMUs

Platforms

Barnham is the junction station for the short branch to Bognor Regis. It is also a well-used interchange for passengers between slow and fast services. It has eastbound services to London Victoria via Horsham and Gatwick Airport, Brighton via Worthing and Littlehampton via Ford, as well as westbound services to Bognor Regis, Portsmouth, Southampton. Trains travelling from east to west (i.e. heading towards Chichester and Bognor Regis) sometimes divide at Barnham, particularly services on sundays.

  • Platform 1 - Westbound services towards Bognor Regis (either starting at Barnham or from Littlehampton)
  • Platform 2 - Westbound services towards Chichester, Portsmouth, Southampton or Bognor Regis (from London)
  • Platform 3 - Eastbound services towards Littlehampton, Brighton, London

Services

All services at Barnham are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[1]

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Ford or Horsham   Southern
   Chichester
Ford or Angmering   Southern
  
Southern
Bognor Regis Branch

Former services

Until May 2022, Great Western Railway operated limited services between Brighton, Portsmouth Harbour and Bristol Temple Meads that called at Barnham.[2][3]

Accidents and incidents
  • On 1 August 1962, an electric multiple unit was derailed when points switched under it due to an electrical fault. Thirty-eight people were injured.[4][5] The cause was an electrical short circuit due to a metal washer that had been left behind after maintenance, which caused a false feed to the points motor under unusual circumstances with a very high power load from three trains accelerating simultaneously. Adrian Vaughan commented; "One gets a nasty feeling wondering where the next washer is, at this moment, lying in wait with the potential of mayhem".[6] Before his book had even been published, the Clapham Junction disaster occurred, with a very similar cause.

References
  1. Table 123, 186, 188 National Rail timetable, December 2022
  2. Great Western Railway to terminate Brighton services Rail issue 952 9 March 2022 page 22
  3. Great Western Railway set to axe Brighton service The Argus 21 April 2022
  4. "Accident at Barnham on 1st August 1962 :: The Railways Archive". www.railwaysarchive.co.uk.
  5. Earnshaw, Alan (1989). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 5. Penryn: Atlantic Books. p. 41. ISBN 0-906899-35-4.
  6. Vaughan, Adrian (1989). Obstruction Danger. London: Guild Publishing. pp. 216–221. ISBN 1-85260-055-1.
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