Roffey Road Halt

Roffey Road Halt

Infobox UK disused station
name = Roffey Road Halt
gridref = TQ202333


caption =
manager = London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
owner = Southern Railway
locale = Roffey
borough = Horsham, West Sussex
platforms = 2
years = 1 June 1907
events = Opened as "Roffey Crossing Halt"
years1 = July 1907
events1 = Renamed "Roffey Road Halt"
years2 = 1 January 1917
events2 = Closed
years3 = 3 May 1920
events3 = Reopened
years4 = 3 January 1937
events4 = Closed [Butt, R.V.J. (1995). "The Directory of Railway Stations", Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 198-199.]

Roffey Road Halt is a now disused station on the Arun Valley Line in West Sussex, England and was the second station out of Horsham on the stretch to Crawley. It occupied a rural setting and opened on the 1st June 1907. The anticipated housing growth did not occur and it closed in 1937. [ [http://www.snowing.co.uk/sias/articles/main_8.htm Sussex Industrial Archaelogy Society] ] The only visible signs of its existence are a number of concrete posts that supported the platforms.

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