Sutton railway station (London)

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Sutton
Location
Place	Sutton
Local authority	London Borough of Sutton
Operations
Managed by	Southern
Platforms in use	4
National Rail
Station code	SUO
Annual entry/exit	4.715 million *
Transport for London
Zone	5
History
Key dates	Opened 1847
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This article is about the station in London. For the station in County Dublin,, see Sutton railway station, Republic of Ireland.

Sutton railway station is the main station for Sutton in South London. The station is served by First Capital Connect and Southern trains. It is in Travelcard Zone 5.

There are currently four platforms at Sutton station, numbered 1 to 4 from north to south. Platforms 1 and 2 are on the lines to Wimbledon, Epsom, Dorking, and Horsham. Platforms 3 and 4 are on the Epsom Downs Line which becomes single track about half a mile south of the station. Platforms 1 and 3 are used by services from outer termini to London. Trains from London use platforms 2 and 4. Trains terminating at Sutton and returning to London generally use platform 4.

Remains can be seen at the London end of platform 1 of a fifth platform. This was a bay for local services via Mitcham Junction. A waiting room has now been built on part of the site.

The typical off-peak service from the station is:

• 8tph (trains per hour) to London Victoria, of which 2 run fast to Clapham Junction, 2 call at all stations via Hackbridge and 4 call at all stations via West Croydon and Norbury
• 2tph to London Bridge via West Croydon and Forest Hill
• 2tph to London Blackfriars via Mitcham Junction, Streatham and Herne Hill
• 2tph to Luton via Wimbledon and London
• 3tph to Epsom
• 1tph to Epsom Downs
• 2tph to Wimbledon via the Thameslink loop
• 2tph to Dorking
• 1tph to Horsham

[edit] History

How Sutton might have appeared on the London Underground Map today if the continuation of the Northern Line from Morden to Sutton had been built.

Sutton station was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) on 10 May 1847 when the railway opened its line from West Croydon to Epsom. A branch to Epsom Downs was opened on 22 May 1865 followed by a line to Mitcham Junction on 1 October 1868. The final change to the station came when the branch to Wimbledon opened on 5 January 1930.

[edit] Wimbledon branch

Permission to construct a railway line from Wimbledon to Sutton through what were then undeveloped rural areas had been obtained by the LB&SCR in 1910. World War I prevented any work taking place and when, in the 1920s, the Underground Group planned the extension of the City & South London Railway (C&SLR, now part of the Northern Line) from Clapham, it initially hoped to continue the line south of Morden to Sutton using this unused permission. The route would have seen Underground trains running on surface tracks from Morden past the nearby tube train depot and on to the Network Rail alignment close to Morden South station.

The Southern Railway (SR, successor to the LB&SCR) objected to this encroachment into its area of operation and the loss of its passenger traffic to a more direct route. The two companies agreed that the SR would withdraw objections it had made to the extension of the C&SLR south from Clapham if the CS&LR line would stop at Morden and that the SR would build the Wimbledon to Sutton Line. The new line, electrified from its opening, was one of the last lines built in the London area.

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Sutton railway station (London) from National Rail
• Street map and aerial photo of Sutton railway station (London) from Multimap.com

• Southern E-Group - Sutton Station