Sutton (Surrey) railway station
Sutton  | |
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Sutton station in Sutton High Street | |
  Sutton Location of Sutton in Greater London | |
| Location | Sutton |
| Local authority | London Borough of Sutton |
| Managed by | Southern |
| Station code | SUO |
| DfT category | C2 |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Accessible | Yes [1] |
| Fare zone | 5 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2004–05 | 4.716 million[2] |
| 2005–06 |
 4.750 million[2] |
| 2006–07 |
6.042 million[2] |
| 2007–08 |
6.411 million[2] |
| 2008–09 |
 6.059 million[2] |
| 2009–10 |
5.687 million[2] |
| 2010–11 |
5.769 million[2] |
| 2011–12 |
6.065 million[2] |
| 2012–13 |
6.353 million[2] |
| 2013–14 |
6.607 million[2] |
| Key dates | |
| 1847 | Opened (LB&SCR) |
| 1865 | Start (Epsom line) |
| 1868 | Start (Mitcham Junction line) |
| 1930 | Start (Wimbledon line) |
| Other information | |
| Lists of stations | |
| External links | |
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London Transport portal UK Railways portalCoordinates: 51°21′36″N 0°11′25″W / 51.3601°N 0.1903°W | |
Sutton railway station is in the London Borough of Sutton in south London. It is the main station for Sutton town. It is served by Southern and Thameslink trains. It is in Travelcard Zone 5.[3]
History
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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. Until the early 1980s, it was possible to catch a direct express train to the coast from here to Bognor Regis, Chichester and Portsmouth. This service, until its withdrawal, also gave Sutton the fastest ever journey time of 17 minutes to London Victoria. Since the 1980s, these express services are routed via East Croydon to serve Gatwick Airport and passengers from Sutton for the south coast now have to change at Horsham or travel to West Croydon and walk, take the bus or use Croydon's Tramlink service to get to East Croydon.
Today, the service to London Victoria takes just over 25 minutes on the direct route via Hackbridge.
Layout
The four platforms at Sutton station are numbered 1 to 4 from north to south. Platforms 1 and 2 are on the lines to Wimbledon, Epsom, Leatherhead, Dorking, and Horsham. Platforms 3 and 4 are on the Epsom Downs Line, which becomes single track about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) south of the station. Platforms 1 and 3 are used by services from outer termini to Central London. Trains from Central London use platforms 2 and 4. Terminating trains which return to central London generally use platform 4.
Platforms 1 and 2 can accommodate 12-coach trains and were used by the express services to Bognor Regis and Portsmouth until they were diverted in the early 1980s to serve Gatwick Airport. Nowadays all trains calling at Sutton are formed of ten coaches or fewer. At the London end of platform 1 there are the remains of a fifth platform which was a bay for local services via Mitcham Junction.
Two waiting rooms serve the station: one has its own cafe; the other has a Starbucks kiosk adjacent. An M&S Food to Go shop sits adjacent to the concourse within the station building.[4]
Three lifts serve all platforms - one each for platforms one, two/three and four.
The installation of a side entrance serving the Quadrant was completed in Summer 2014.
Wimbledon branch
Parliamentary approval for a line from Wimbledon to Sutton had been obtained by the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway (W&SR) in 1910 but work had been delayed by World War I.[5] From the W&SR's inception, the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR) was a shareholder of the company and had rights to run trains over the line when built. In the 1920s, the London Electric Railway (LER, precursor of London Underground) planned, through its ownership of the MDR, to use part of the route for an extension of the City and South London Railway (C&SLR, now the Northern line) to Sutton.[5] The SR objected and an agreement was reached that enabled the C&SLR to extend as far as Morden in exchange for the LER giving up its rights over the W&SR route. The SR subsequently built the line, one of the last to be built in the London area. The line opened on 5 January 1930 when full services on the line were extended from South Merton.[5]
Services
The typical off-peak service from the station is:
- 10tph (trains per hour) to London Victoria
- 2tph to St Albans
- 3tph to Epsom
- 1tph to Epsom Downs
- 2tph to Luton
- 2tph to Dorking, of which one continues to Horsham
On a Sunday the service from this station is:
- 8tph (trains per hour) to London Victoria
- 2tph to Luton
- 2tph to Blackfriars
- 2tph to Epsom
- 2tph to Dorking
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Carshalton | Southern Sutton & Mole Valley Lines |
Cheam | ||
| Carshalton Beeches | Belmont Mondays-Saturdays only: Terminates at Sutton on Sundays | |||
| Carshalton Beeches | Southern London Victoria to Sutton via Crystal Palace or Norbury |
Terminus | ||
| Carshalton | Thameslink Wimbledon Loop |
West Sutton | ||
| Southern Sutton Loop Line Peak hours only |
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Connections
London Buses routes 80, 164, 280, 470, S1, S3 and S4, night route N44 and non-TFL route 420 serve the station.
References
- ↑ "London and South East" (PDF). National Rail Enquiries. National Rail. September 2006. Archived from the original (pdf) on 6 March 2009.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
- ↑ "London's Rail & Tube services" (PDF). Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ↑ National Rail
- 1 2 3 Jackson, Alan A. (December 1966). "The Wimbledon & Sutton Railway – A late arrival on the South London suburban scene" (PDF). The Railway Magazine: 675–680. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
External links
- Train times and station information for Sutton (Surrey) railway station from National Rail
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