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Bramley & Wonersh railway station
Bramley & Wonersh was a railway station on the Cranleigh Line. It served the villages of Bramley and Wonersh in Surrey.
==History==
Opened in 1865 as "Bramley", its name was changed in June 1888 to "Bramley & Wonersh" as the station, although situated in Bramley, was only a short distance from Wonersh. A passing loop and a second platform were installed in 1876. The station was the last before the line joined the main line to Guildford at Peasmarsh Junction.
In the Second World War a German Dornier 217 aircraft attacked a train carrying Christmas shoppers as it was departing Bramley & Wonersh on 16 December 1942. The plane machine-gunned the train and dropped a bomb〔 that exploded on the embankment, narrowly missing the train. The driver and guard were killed, a number of passengers were killed or wounded and the train was badly damaged. The fireman and the porter-in-charge of Bramley station attended the wounded and dying, later helped by six soldiers who were billetted nearby.〔 Afterwards fireman William Fairey and porter-in-charge Violet Wisdom were presented with certificates of merit for their actions, and Miss Wisdom was singled out for her ''"great courage and resource directly the bombs had fallen"''.〔
The line was closed in 1965 following ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' report or 1963, and the main station building was demolished a few years later. The trackbed remained overgrown for many years before being brought back into use in the 1980s as part of the Downs Link, a public footpath and bridleway linking the North Downs and South Downs National Trails. In 2004 major renovation works were carried out at the station by the local council and the Bramley Historical Society.
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