Gomshall is a stop on the North Downs Line in Surrey between Chilworth and Dorking West.
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| A GWR service departs heading for Reading |
| Information |
| Type: |
National Rail
(North Downs Line) |
| Station code: |
GOM |
| Opened: |
1849 |
| Platforms: |
2 |
The station was opened by the Reading, Guildford & Reigate Railway in 1849 as Gomshall & Shere Heath. Over the next couple of years the station name was changed to Gomshall & Sheire, then Gomshall & Shere. The name was eventually (in 1980) shortened to just Gomshall. The station was the scene of a major railway accident in 1903 when a troop train derailed, though thankfully there were no fatalities [1].
The station has two staggered platforms connected by a footbridge. However, until 2016 a gated foot crossing was the means for passengers to transfer between the two platforms. The station is managed by Great Western Railway with an hourly service in both directions during peak hours, every two hours off-peak. The original station buildings have now gone (replaced by the usual bus shelters) but the platform based signal box (from 1941) survives though no longer in use.
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| Platform view from the footbridge |
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| Gomshall signalbox |
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| Preparing to depart |
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| Footbridge, notice the platform stagger |
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| GWR 165 116 arrives with a Redhill bound service |
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Guildford to Redhill (Middleton Press, 1988) Fig. 46
