Trainspotting at Horley | Southern, Thameslink & Freight | Spring 2026

๐‘ป๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’—๐’Š๐’…๐’†๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’•๐’ ๐‘จ๐’…๐’—๐’†๐’๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’†๐’”๐‘ฉ๐’š๐‘น๐’‚๐’Š๐’_377 * ๐Ÿ“น (๐‘ญ๐’Š๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’… ๐’Š๐’ 4๐‘ฒ) ๐ด๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘˜, ๐ผ'๐‘š ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘œ ๐‘œ๐‘“ 2026, ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’: ๐‡๐Ž๐‘๐‹๐„๐˜. Nothing too crazy, just a relaxed few hours in the spring sunshine getting back into the swing of things, with a steady mix of services from ๐‘บ๐’๐’–๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’, ๐‘ฎ๐’‚๐’•๐’˜๐’Š๐’„๐’Œ ๐‘ฌ๐’™๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’”, ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’‚๐’Ž๐’†๐’”๐’๐’Š๐’๐’Œ and ๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’• ๐‘พ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’ ๐‘น๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’˜๐’‚๐’š. There was also some nice variety, including a couple of freight workings from ๐‘ซ๐‘ฉ ๐‘บ๐’„๐’‰๐’†๐’๐’Œ๐’†๐’“ and ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฉ๐‘น๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’‡๐’“๐’†๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’•, adding a bit of interest to the day. Disruption in the Farringdon area led to some delayed and altered ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’‚๐’Ž๐’†๐’”๐’๐’Š๐’๐’Œ services, and it was interesting to see the different coloured ๐‚๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ•๐ฌ working both ๐‘บ๐’๐’–๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’ and ๐‘ฎ๐’‚๐’•๐’˜๐’Š๐’„๐’Œ ๐‘ฌ๐’™๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’” services. ~ ๐ด ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘—๐‘œ๐‘ฆ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘›! ~ ๐—™๐—ถ๐—น๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ป: Thursday 30th April 2026 ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป: Horley (Brighton Main Line) ๐ˆ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ž๐ง๐ฃ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐จ, ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž, ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐›๐ฌ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐”๐Š ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ฅ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ! #trainspotting #uktrainspotting #horley