Ifield railway station

Ifield
General information
Location	Ifield, Crawley, West Sussex England
Grid reference	TQ250366
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	IFI
Classification	DfT category E
Key dates
1 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)
Passengers
2019/20	0.332 million
2020/21	87,232
2021/22	0.185 million
2022/23	0.232 million
2023/24	0.231 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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] Train services are provided by 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]

• 2 tph to Peterborough via Redhill
• 2 tph to Horsham

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.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Crawley		Thameslink Arun Valley Line		Faygate or Littlehaven
		Southern Arun Valley Line Limited Service

References

1. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 126.
2. 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.
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. Oxford: Institute of Historical Research by Oxford University Press. pp. 53–60. ISBN 0-19-722768-6. Retrieved 21 January 2007.
4. Table 183 National Rail timetable, May 2023

External links

• Train times and station information for Ifield railway station from National Rail

51.116°N 0.215°W / 51.116; -0.215