Station code WBY DfT category C2 Opened 1 December 1887 | Grid reference TQ041610 Managed by South West Trains 2011/12 1.225 million | |
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Number of platforms 3 (2 are used, one seldom) Similar Weybridge railway station, Byfleet & New Haw railway st, Esher railway station, Walton‑on‑Thames railway station, Worplesdon railway station | ||
West Byfleet railway station is a relatively minor stop on the South Western Main Line opened 49 years after the line reached the following station west, Woking which is the district of the station.
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Service overview
It is served by all Alton and Woking (stopping) services by settled convention dating to the mid-to-late 20th century.
It adjoins West Byfleet and Woodham which are suburban settlements in the boroughs of Woking and Runnymede, to the south and north of the line, respectively. As to other towns it is the closest station to parts of the town/suburb of Byfleet and parts of the semi-rural suburb of Pyrford.
The station has three platforms, one of which (platform 2) is rarely used in line with nearby other South West Main Line stations. The station competes in the broadest sense, not of train company, with faster services at the next nearest station on the line, Woking station. Both are served by bus routes outside of the Transport for London fare-capped scheme.
The station was upgraded to increase disabled access, with lifts to both platform islands and a new bridge, work accomplished 2008-2009.
Services
As of April 2015 at off-peak times the station has 4 trains per hour in each direction, alternating between Woking and Alton as to the end or start destination to the south-west and both having London (Waterloo) as their north-east terminus. The Alton services calling at fewer intermediate stations (being semi-fast).
The station frontage appeared in the 1977 movie Adventures of a Private Eye starring Christopher Neil.