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Kingston
Location of Kingston in Greater London |
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| Location | Kingston upon Thames |
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| Local authority | Kingston upon Thames |
| Managed by | South West Trains |
| Station code | KNG |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| Fare zone | 6 |
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| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2004–05 | 3.163 million[1] |
| 2005–06 | 3.227 million[1] |
| 2006–07 | 5.597 million[1] |
| 2007–08 | 5.791 million[1] |
| 2008–09 | 5.161 million[1] |
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| 1 July 1863 | Opened (Kingston New) |
| 1 January 1869 | Opened (Kingston High Level) |
| 1935 | Two stations amalgamated and renamed "Kingston" |
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| List of stations | Underground · National Rail |
| External links | Departures • Layout |
| Facilities • Buses | |
Kingston railway station is in Kingston upon Thames in Greater London. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South West Trains. It is in Travelcard Zone 6.
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The station opened on 1 July 1863 as "Kingston Town" (¿ or "Kingston New"?), to distinguish it from the earlier Kingston station (which became Surbiton) on the South West Main Line. It was then the terminus of the London & South Western Railway branch line from Twickenham.[2] The platforms built when the line was prolonged in 1869 to connect to the South West Main Line were named "Kingston High Level".
The Southern Railway rebuilt and unified the station in 1935. In August 2010 it was refurbished, with the entrance, but not the concourse, moving a few metres to face Wood Street instead of being at the corner formed by Wood Street and Richmond Road, and the independent shop was replaced by a WHSmith and a Costa Coffee shop.
The two northern platforms are on the through tracks while the third, at the south, is a long west-facing bay which has been used for past curtailments of the Shepperton service and allows reversal of trains coming via Twickenham when there is a closure east of Kingston of either the loop or the main line. Stairs and lifts give access to the platforms.
The typical off-peak weekday service at Kingston in trains per hour is: [3]
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Norbiton | South West Trains Kingston Loop Line |
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Although no buses stop at the station entrance, Kingston Cromwell Road bus station is one hundred metres away east and Kingston Fairfield bus station lies a furlong to the south. More than sixty bus routes pass through Kingston
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