Jessie's Seat Commemoration Train Journey - Saturday 29th February 2020

Timings have just been confirmed, please see below:



1238 Train arrives at Platform 13


1249 Train departs Reading Station


1319 Train departs Guildford Station, platform 5


1328 Train departs Chilworth Station


1331-1338 Train stops for approx. 5 mins at Jessies Seat


1341 Train departs Gomshall Station


1356 Train arrives Redhill (everyone stays on board). Platform 0


1400 Train departs Redhill


1414 Train arrives Gomshall


1418 – 1425 Train stops for approx. 5 mins at Jessies Seat


1427 Train arrives Chilworth


1435 Train arrives Guildford, platform 8


1513 Train arrives Reading, platform 13A.

Event ends  

For further information please look at https://www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/people-and-the-railway-jessies-seat/ and for a live 3-D preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxVu99xCP5Q as it affords a view of said topiary at 19.46, but to look out for the caption from 19.30.

Thank you to Network Rail for the photograph of the topiary chicken known as Jessie’s seat, the lineside memorial to Henry Wicks. You can read more about Jessie’s Seat here : Network Rail’s article about Jessie’s Seat