Holmwood railway station
Holmwood 
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| Location | |
| Place | Beare Green |
| Local authority | District of Mole Valley |
| Coordinates | 51°10′52″N 0°19′16″W / 51.181°N 0.321°WCoordinates: 51°10′52″N 0°19′16″W / 51.181°N 0.321°W |
| Grid reference | TQ174437 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | HLM |
| Managed by | Southern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 53,802 |
| 2012/13 |
 53,082 |
| 2013/14 |
56,530 |
| 2014/15 |
60,864 |
| 2015/16 |
60,970 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1 May 1867 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Holmwood from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Holmwood railway station is a station serving the villages of Beare Green and South Holmwood in Surrey, England. It is situated on the Sutton & Mole Valley Lines between Dorking and Horsham, 27 miles 5 chains (43.6 km) from London Waterloo station.
For most of the day there are southbound services to Horsham and northbound services terminating at Victoria (via Sutton and Clapham Junction).
In the Monday to Friday morning peak hours northbound and the evening peak southbound are an approximately half-hourly service to Dorking, with a connecting service directly into alternative terminus Waterloo, which can be accessed via a change at Clapham Junction otherwise.
The station is unmanned and does not have any parking spaces of its own. There is no taxi rank.
The disused signalbox on the up platform at Holmwood is Grade II listed.
The station opened in 1867 in what was the far north of the civil parish of Capel along the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway line to Portsmouth. Why it was called Holmwood is mysterious, however Beare Green was a smaller settlement than the Holmwood area which was expanding with building at the time.
Holmwood for many years had until a revised timetable of 10 July 1967 two hourly services during the day in each direction:
In respect of the first route where on time the journey was completed in less than 55 minutes: no slack, allowing for lengthy boarding assuming identical track speed, was built into the timetables. Of relevance to Bognor Regis, a once an hour non-stop express Victoria service went through the station from the coastal resort.
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