Leatherhead railway station

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Leatherhead
Location
Place	Leatherhead
Local authority	Mole Valley
Operations
Station code	LHD
Managed by	Southern
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	1.338 million
2005/06 *	1.413 million
History
Key dates	Opened 4 March 1867
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Leatherhead from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Leatherhead railway station is a railway station serving the town of Leatherhead in Surrey, England. The station is managed by Southern, who provide train services along with South West Trains.

It is situated at the junction of the Sutton & Mole Valley Line with a branch to Effingham Junction on the New Guildford Line.

Contents 1 History 2 Services 3 Typical off-peak journey times from Leatherhead 4 External links

[edit] History

The present station is one of four that have served Leatherhead over the years (although two were only ever intended to be temporary). Both the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR) and the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) had plans to build a railway line into Leatherhead, and an agreement was reached that one would build the line on condition that the other was granted equal running rights over it. However, each company built their own station, a few hundred yards apart: the LBSCR on their line to Dorking and Horsham, and the LSWR on their line to Guildford. The lines through the two stations met a short distance to the north, and the joint line continued towards Epsom.

Following the Grouping of 1923, the LBSCR and LSWR both became part of the Southern Railway, and having two stations was deemed unnecessary. So in 1927 the line from Guildford was diverted to join the former LBSCR line to the south of their station.

The LBSCR station is the one that survives, although the Stationmaster's House (an integral part of the main building) is boarded up along with the building on Platform 2. The only remains of the LSWR station are part of the steps up from road level to platform level.

In the 1930s, it was planned to extend the new line to Chessington to Leatherhead. However, World War II caused this to be put on hold, and a subsequent protection order on Ashtead Common meant that this was never built.

[edit] Services

Southern operate services between London Victoria and Horsham, via Dorking. The typical Monday to Saturday service sees trains every 30 minutes between Victoria and Dorking, with trains continuing to Horsham every hour. On Sundays, there are trains every 30 minutes between Victoria and Dorking only.

Southern also provide a small number of Monday to Friday morning and evening peak period services between London Bridge and Guildford.

South West Trains operate services between London Waterloo and Guildford, and between London Waterloo and Dorking. The typical Monday to Saturday service sees trains from Waterloo approximately every 15 minutes, with trains continuing to each of Guildford and Dorking every 30 minutes. Since December 2007, they have operated a half-hourly Sunday service to Waterloo and hourly services to Guildford and Dorking.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Ashtead		Southern Sutton & Mole Valley Line		Box Hill & Westhumble
		Southern Peak periods only		Bookham
Ashtead		South West Trains Mole Valley Line		Dorking
		South West Trains Mole Valley Line Peak Hours Only		Box Hill and Westhumble
		South West Trains Mole Valley Line Bookham branch		Bookham

[edit] Typical off-peak journey times from Leatherhead

Based on the December 2006 - May 2007 timetable
Frequency in trains per hour

Destination	Platform	Journey time	Frequency	Operator
Ashtead	1	4 minutes	6 tph	Southern and South West Trains
Epsom	1	8 minutes	6 tph	Southern and South West Trains
Sutton	1	18 minutes	2 tph	Southern
Wimbledon	1	29 minutes	4 tph	South West Trains
Clapham Junction	1	33 minutes	6 tph	Southern and South West Trains
LONDON VICTORIA	1	42 minutes	2 tph	Southern
LONDON WATERLOO	1	45 minutes	4 tph	South West Trains
Box Hill & Westhumble	2	5 minutes	1 tph	Southern
Dorking	2	6 minutes	4 tph	Southern and South West Trains
HORSHAM	2	14 minutes	1 tph	Southern
Bookham	2	5 minutes	2 tph	South West Trains
Effingham Junction	2	9 minutes	2 tph	South West Trains
GUILDFORD	2	19 minutes	2 tph	South West Trains

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Leatherhead railway station from National Rail