Woldingham railway station

Woldingham

Location
Place	Woldingham
Local authority	District of Tandridge
Grid reference	TQ359563
Operations
Station code	WOH
Managed by	Southern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.215 million
2005/06	0.216 million
2006/07	0.236 million
2007/08	0.245 million
2008/09	0.245 million
2009/10	0.253 million
2010/11	0.264 million
2011/12	0.272 million
2012/13	0.267 million
2013/14	0.279 million
2014/15	0.278 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1 July 1885 (1 July 1885)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Woldingham from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Woldingham railway station is in the west of the civil parish and village of Woldingham in Surrey, England on the East Grinstead (or Oxted) Line.

History

The station opened as Marden Park in 1885, one year after the line opened, with one waiting shelter and named after the manor in the west of Woldingham and north-east of Godstone.^[1] The line was relatively late in the history of the railways due to the amount of earth-moving and chalk extraction required. The adjacent Station Lodge is at 128 metres (420 ft) above sea level (ordnance datum) and path below the viaduct immediately to the north is at 122 metres (400 ft), as the track ascends the remainder of the cutting and immediately south of the station enters a cutting. A tunnel follows to the south of approximately 1 mile (1.6 km).^[2] It was renamed Woldingham in 1984.

Service overview

The East Grinstead (or Oxted) Line is by early 20th century settled convention a stopping service south of East Croydon and is a fast service north of this, in London, having suburban service specialisation.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

2 to London Victoria
2 to East Grinstead

On the southbound platform, there is a self-service ticket machine, and a manned ticket office (staffed for part of the day, not Sundays)

A car park extension north of the station is equipped with a new Metric Aura ticket machine.

References

↑ Parishes: Woldingham A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4, ed. H E Malden (London, 1912), pp. 339-341. Accessed 21 April 2015.
↑ Interactive Maps Surrey County Council. Accessed 2015-04-15

External links

Train times and station information for Woldingham railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Upper Warlingham		Southern Oxted Line		Oxted

Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern and Southeastern routes

Southern routes serving this station

Oxted Line	London Bridge via Norwood Junction then East Croydon or London Victoria Clapham Junction East Croydon Sanderstead Riddlesdown Upper Warlingham Woldingham Oxted Hurst Green Lingfield Dormans East Grinstead Edenbridge Town Hever Cowden Ashurst Eridge Crowborough Buxted Uckfield

Stations in italics are served on limited occasions, at peak hours or on Sundays only.

Coordinates: 51°17′24″N 0°03′07″W / 51.290°N 0.052°W / 51.290; -0.052

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