Richmond station (London)
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| Location | |||
| Place | Richmond | ||
| Local authority | Richmond upon Thames | ||
| Operations | |||
| Managed by | South West Trains | ||
| Platforms in use | 7 | ||
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| Station code | RMD | ||
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7.399 million * | ||
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| Zone | 4 | ||
| Annual entry/exit | 6.02 million † | ||
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| 1846 1848 1869 1869 1870 1877 1894 1906 1910 1916 1937 |
Opened as Terminus (R&WER) Station moved (WS&SWR) Opened (L&SWR via Hammersmith) Started (NLR) Started and Ended (GWR) Started (MR and MDR) Started (GWR) Ended (MR) Ended (GWR) Ended (L&SWR via Hammersmith) Stations merged (SR) |
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Richmond station is a London Underground and National Rail station located in Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London.
The station is the south-western terminus of the London Underground's District Line and the western terminus of the Silverlink North London Line service; the next station eastwards is Kew Gardens. Richmond is also served by South West Trains to and from Waterloo, Windsor and Eton Riverside, Kingston and Reading, on these services the station is between North Sheen and St. Margarets stations.
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[edit] History
The first station at Richmond was opened by the Richmond & West End Railway (R&WER) on 27 July 1846 as a terminus of its line from Clapham Junction via Wandsworth and Mortlake. The Windsor, Staines & South Western Railway (WS&SWR) extended the line westward and opened a replacement through station on the extended tracks on the current site. Both the R&WER and WS&SWR were subsidiary companies of the London & South Western Railway (L&SWR).
On 1 January 1869 the L&SWR opened a new branch line to Richmond built from the West London Joint Railway starting north of Addison Road station (now Kensington (Olympia)). The line (now mainly London Underground's District Line) ran through Grove Road station in Hammersmith (now closed) and Turnham Green. Via a short connection from the North & South Western Junction Railway (N&SWJR) to Gunnersbury, the line south from Gunnersbury was also served by the North London Railway (NLR).
Between 1 June 1870 and 31 October 1870 the Great Western Railway (GWR) briefly ran services from Paddington to Richmond via the Hammersmith & City Railway (now the Hammersmith & City Line) tracks to Grove Road then on the L&SWR tracks through Turnham Green.
On 1 June 1877, the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, now the District Line) opened a short extension from its terminus at Hammersmith to connect to the L&SWR tracks east of Ravenscourt Park station. The MDR then began running trains over the L&SWR tracks to Richmond. On 1 October 1877, the Metropolitan Railway (MR, now the Metropolitan Line) restarted the GWR's former service to Richmond via Grove Road station.
The MDR's service between Richmond, Hammersmith and central London was more direct than the NLR's route via Willesden Junction, the L&SWR's or the MR's routes via Grove Road station or the L&SWR's route via Clapham Junction to Waterloo. From 1 January 1894, the GWR began sharing the MR's Richmond service, meaning that passengers from Gunnersbury could travel on the services of five operators.
Following the electrification of the MDR's own tracks north of Acton Town in 1903, the MDR funded the electrification of the tracks between Gunnersbury and Richmond which were electrified on 1 August 1905. Whilst MDR services were operated with electric trains, the L&SWR, NLR, GWR and MR services on the branch continued to be steam hauled.
MR services were withdrawn on 31 December 1906 and GWR services were withdrawn on 31 December 1910 leaving operations northwards through Kew Gardens and Gunnersbury to the MDR (by then known as the District Railway), the NLR and L&SWR. By 1916, the L&SWR's route through Hammersmith was being out-competed by the District to such a degree that the L&SWR withdrew its service between Richmond and Addison Road on 3 June 1916, leaving the District as the sole operator over that route and the NLR providing mainline services via Willesden Junction.
Following the grouping of 1923 the L&SWR became part of the Southern Railway (SR) and the NLR became part of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS); both were subsequently nationalised into British Railways. In the mid 1930s the SR rebuilt the station and opened it in its current combined arrangement on 1 August 1937.
[edit] Present day
The station has seven platforms. Platforms 1 and 2 are through platforms used by South West Trains services. Platforms 3 to 7 are terminating platforms used by the North London Line (platforms 3 and 4) and the District Line (platforms 5, 6 and 7).
[edit] Future
The transport section of the current Borough Unitary Development Plan [2] indicates that an additional platform for the North London Line may be constructed to accommodate additional services on the orbital route.
[edit] Off peak service
The typical off-peak service frequency is:
- 8tph (trains per hour) direct to Waterloo (South West Trains)
- 2 fast to Clapham Junction
- 2 fast to Putney and Clapham Junction
- 4 all stations
- 6tph to Upminster via Tower Hill (District Line)
- 4tph to Stratford (Silverlink)
- 2tph to Reading (South West Trains)
- 2tph to Windsor and Eton Riverside (South West Trains)
- 4tph indirect to Waterloo (South West Trains)
- 2 via Hounslow & Brentford
- 2 via Kingston
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Richmond station (London) from National Rail
- Street map and aerial photo of Richmond station (London) from Multimap.com
| Preceding station | Underground Lines | Following station | ||
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| Terminus | District Line (Richmond branch) |
Kew Gardens | ||
| National Rail | ||||
| Terminus | Silverlink North London Line |
Kew Gardens | ||
| North Sheen | South West Trains | St. Margarets | ||
| Railway stations of London Central area | Greater London |
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| Managed by Network Rail: Cannon Street • Charing Cross • Euston • Fenchurch Street • King's Cross • Liverpool Street • London Bridge • Paddington • Victoria • Waterloo |
| Managed by train operator: Blackfriars • Marylebone • Moorgate • St Pancras |
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