Dorking Deepdene railway station

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Dorking Deepdene
Location
Place	Dorking
Local authority	Mole Valley
Operations
Station code	DPD
Managed by	First Great Western
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	0.156 million
2005/06 *	0.164 million
History
1 February 1851 27 July 1887 1 January 1917 1 January 1919 9 July 1923 5 November 1967 May 1986 11 May 1987	Opened as Box Hill and Leatherhead Road Renamed Box Hill WW1 station closure Reopened Renamed Deepdene Unstaffed Introduction of semi-fast services to Gatwick Airport Renamed Dorking (Deepdene)
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dorking Deepdene from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Dorking (Deepdene) railway station is in Surrey. The station and all trains serving it are operated by First Great Western. It is on the North Downs Line. It is one of three stations in Dorking, the other two being Dorking and Dorking West. The station is within walking distance of Dorking station and interchange on a through ticket is permitted.
There is no ticket office and the station is unstaffed; tickets can be purchased on the train. The ticket office at Dorking station is open seven days per week and sells tickets for all national rail train services.

[edit] Services

The typical off-peak service is two trains per hour to Reading, two to Redhill and one to Gatwick Airport.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Guildford		First Great Western North Downs Line hourly semi-fast services to Gatwick Airport		Reigate
Dorking West		First Great Western North Downs Line every two hours		Betchworth
Gomshall		First Great Western North Downs Line every two hours		Reigate

[edit] Typical Journey Times

(December 2006 - May 2007 timetable)

Destination	Platform	Frequency per hour	semi-fast minutes	stopping minutes
Betchworth	1	0.5	-	5
Reigate	1	2	8	10
Redhill	1	2	12	15
Gatwick Airport	1	1	24	-
Gomshall	2	0.5	-	8
Shalford	2	1	-	18
Guildford	2	2	17	22
Wokingham	2	2	45	58
Reading	2	2	54	68

Between Guildford and Redhill the stopping service pattern alternates every hour off-peak:

Hour 1	Guildford	Shalford	Chilworth	Gomshall		Dorking (Deepdene)		Reigate	Redhill
Hour 2	Guildford	Shalford			Dorking West	Dorking (Deepdene)	Betchworth	Reigate	Redhill

In peak hours the stopping service calls at all stations in both directions.

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Dorking Deepdene railway station from National Rail