Baynards

Baynards was a stop on the now closed Cranleigh line in Surrey between Cranleigh and Rudgwick. 

Information
Type:	National Rail (Cranleigh Line)
Opened:	1865
Closed:	1965
Platforms:	2

Baynards station was opened by the Horsham & Guildford Direct Railway, in 1865, for Lord Thurlow, on whose land the Cranleigh Line (from Guildford to Horsham) passed through. The opening of a station to serve his estate was a condition for allowing the line to pass through his land. The station served no nearby settlement which did not do a great deal for the station's usage. However, in the twentieth century the station became popular as a filming location due to the rural surrounds [1]. The station appeared in a number of films made in the 1940s to 1960s as well as the BBC TV adaptation of the Railway Children.

Despite the rural location Baynard station had two platforms and a goods shed. There was a level crossing at one end of the platforms which was controlled from a signalbox. The Baynard Brick & Tile Works was near to the station and has it's own private siding.

The station was operated by the London Brighton & South Coast Railway and later part of the Southern Railway. Baynards was closed in 1965 along with the rest of the Cranleigh Line. The station buildings and platforms still survive and have been partially preserved.

Baynards station (KD collection)

[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Branch Lines to Horsham (Middleton Press, 1982) Fig. 23