Facilities
Although the station is completely unmanned it has recently (during the latter half of 2011) benefited from the installation of a fully automated Quickfare ticket machine taking both credit and debit cards and cash that sells through tickets to anywhere on the UK railway network in place of the previous Permit To Travel only ticket machine. Tickets can also be purchased in advance of travel from Southern's website at http://www.southernrailway.com, and then collected from the ticket machine at Holmwood station before boarding a train using the credit or debit card with which they were purchased.
The station does not have any parking spaces of its own but free unrestricted parking is normally always available on the main road next to the station entrance to the two platforms. There is no taxi rank, so a taxi would have to be summoned by telephone from Dorking, possibly rendering it largely uneconomic to do so.
There is also a public payphone accepting only credit and debit cards for payment situated around 100 yards south of the station entrance in the car park outside the Beare Green newsagent and village store.
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