Shalford is a stop on the North Downs Line in Surrey between Guildford and Chilworth.
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| GWR 165 105 departs |
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| Type: | National Rail (North Downs Line) |
| Station code: | SFR |
| Opened: | 1849 |
| Platforms: | 2 |
The station was opened by the Reading, Guildford & Reigate Railway in 1849. it later became part of the South Eastern Railway. In 1944 two goods trains collided at Shalford, one a tanker train carrying aviation spirit [1]. Despite the devastation to the line and nearby buildings, the line was reopened quickly. Earlier in the war Shalford was a sub-control centre for evacuation trains after Dunkirk.
The station has been unstaffed since 1967, the station has also lost it's original station buildings. Access between the platforms is via a footbridge. The station is managed by GWR, with at least one service in each direction per hour.
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| Current facilities are the basic and ubiquitous |
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| Footbridge |
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| Platform view from the footbridge |
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| Preparing to depart |
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| GWR 165 104 arrives |
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Guildford to Redhill (Middleton Press, 1989) Fig. 25
