Christ's Hospital railway station
Christ's Hospital 
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| Location | |
| Place | Christ's Hospital |
| Local authority | Horsham, West Sussex |
| Grid reference | TQ14752903 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CHH |
| Managed by | Southern |
| Number of platforms | 2 (originally 7) |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.156 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.164 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.179 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.183 million |
| 2015/16 |
 0.182 million |
| History | |
| Original company | London, Brighton and South Coast Railway |
| Post-grouping |
Southern Railway Southern Region of British Railways |
| 28 April 1902 | Opened as Christ's Hospital, West Horsham |
| 4 September 1961 | Closed to goods traffic |
| c. 1968 – c. 1972 | Renamed |
| 1972 | Rebuilt |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Christ's Hospital from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Christ's Hospital railway station is near Horsham, West Sussex. It was opened in 1902 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and was intended primarily to serve Christ's Hospital, a large independent school which had moved to the area in that year. It now also serves the rural area to the west of Horsham. In order to alight from the train here, one must travel in the first seven carriages as the station has a short platform.
Opened originally as Christ's Hospital (West Horsham), the station was until the mid-1960s an important junction with, in addition to the existing link to Arundel via Pulborough, connections to Guildford via Cranleigh and Brighton via Shoreham-by-Sea.
The typical Monday-Sunday off peak service is:
For a period from the late 1960s until c. 1989, many services did not stop at the station.
The station has short platforms.
The ticket office is now open from the first London bound train (Monday to Friday) which is about 06:30, until 10:40 when the office closes. There is also a 'Quick Ticket' machine allowing passengers to purchase tickets when the office is closed. In April 2009, Southern installed display screens to tell passengers when trains are due. In August 2012, the station won Southern's award for best small/medium station, being described as a "charming friendly station with a homely atmosphere, well presented flower beds and even a charity bookstall." The flower beds are maintained by the Aldingbourne Community Trust.
The site of Christ's Hospital station had been previously used by the Aylesbury Dairy Company which had a small wooden platform on the Mid-Sussex Railway for milk to be taken to London. This platform had fallen into disuse upon the bankruptcy of the dairy after it lavished large sums of money on farm buildings. The estate was purchased in 1897 at a knock-down price by Christ's Hospital school, which had been seeking to move from London. It was expected that the school would attract large numbers of visitors which would need to be accommodated by the railway. When the school's foundation stone was laid by the Prince of Wales on 23 October 1897, the whole school came down by train to Horsham where a siding was laid for the occasion.
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