Facilities
The station is completely unmanned. During the winter 2011/12 season the latest type of computerised touch sensitive screen based ticket machine was installed taking both credit and debit cards and cash that sells through tickets and season 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 Ockley station before boarding a train using the credit or debit card with which they were purchased.
The station has free parking for around 17 cars (15 normal spaces and two disabled) in the Station Approach, but these spaces are often full by 7.30am on weekdays. When the station car park is full there is no other safe parking location at the station as the winding unlit Coles Lane from which the Station Approach is accessed is neither safe or suitable for parking and the nearest safe parking locations on public roads in Capel village are at least half a mile away. There is no taxi rank, so a taxi would have to be summoned by telephone from Dorking or Horsham rendering it largely uneconomic to do so. There is a BT Payphone in front of the station building which only takes credit or debit cards. There are no buses that serve the station itself.
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