Information/Autograph request
Picture postcard sent by Bray to The Staion Master, LB&SCR, Bognor, Sussex on 2nd October 1906 asking for his autograph and some information to be supplied.
Bognor Regis railway station is in the town of Bognor Regis, in the English county of West Sussex. It is approximately 54 miles (87 km) southwest of London Victoria.
The first station to serve Bognor was situated on the main line at Woodgate Crossing, a little more than one mile (1.6 km) west of the present Barnham railway station. It was opened on 8 June 1846 by the Brighton and Chichester Railway, which became the London Brighton and South Coast Railway a few weeks later. This station was renamed several times during its short life becoming Woodgate for Bognor, Woodgate, Bognor (again) and Woodgate (again) before closing in 1864.
The site of the present station dates from the opening of the branch line to Bognor from Barnham on 1 June 1864, after several abortive projects to connect the town to the railway system in 1845, 1853 and 1855. The station suffered two disasters in the 1890s, when it was blown down in a gale in 1897, and then burned down in 1899. The present station buildings by the company architect C.D. Collins[4] date from 1902 and have achieved grade II listed building status as an Edwardian period seaside station terminus .
The line was doubled between 1902 and 1911, and electrified in the 1930s. The station was renamed 'Bognor Regis' by the Southern Railway in 1930 as the town was renamed as such having been the place of the King's (George V) recuperation from serious illness.
