Christ&s Hospital was a very imposing station, featuring no fewer than seven platform faces, but only five running lines. In the above photograph the two platforms on the far right flank a single running line that was used for luggage trains serving the nearby college. Just visible beyond the signalbox on the left of the picture is the line to Guildford for which three platforms and two running lines were provided. Here 2-Bil 2092 pauses with a train from Victoria to Bognor Regis via Redhill, Horsham and Littlehampton.

photograph by Keith Harwood

Christ's Hospital station is a lot younger than the line from Horsham on which it is situated. The "Horsham and Guildford Direct Railway", first proposed in 1860 and opening in 1865, left the main line from Horsham at Stammerham Junction. When, in 1902, the Bluecoats School moved from London to Sussex the LB&SCR built a splendid new station for them at Stammerham Junction and named it "Christ's Hospital". Regrettably Christ's Hospital station is now a mere shadow of its former self.

The battered sign on the up main platform at Christ's Hospital, giving direction to the Guildford platforms. Note the incorrect spelling of Rudgwick, which had evidently been that way for years.

photograph by Keith Harwood

Closure notice relating to the line to Guildford. They had the correct spelling of Rudgwick when they wanted to close it!

photograph by Keith Harwood

Former site of the signal box, which had to be demolished following a fire, allegedly due to a faulty electric heater, photograped in August 2003 during a re-signalling of the line.

photograph by Nick Beck

The up platform waiting shelter, which is rather more basic than the original structure, to say the very least!

photograph by Nick Beck

No more inspiring is the main station building situated on the opposite platform.

photograph by Nick Beck

A look across the car park at the station building, showing the plethora of automatic ticket machines for when the station is unstaffed.

photograph by Nick Beck