Godstone railway station

Godstone National Rail
Location
Place Godstone
Local authority Tandridge
Coordinates 51°13′05″N 0°03′00″W / 51.218°N 0.050°W / 51.218; -0.050Coordinates: 51°13′05″N 0°03′00″W / 51.218°N 0.050°W / 51.218; -0.050
Grid reference TQ362483
Operations
Station code GDN
Managed by Southern
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05  58,337
2005/06 Increase 69,285
2006/07 Increase 73,597
2007/08 Increase 83,682
2008/09 Decrease 78,524
2009/10 Decrease 74,032
2010/11 Increase 74,154
2011/12 Increase 75,876
2012/13 Increase 77,018
2013/14 Decrease 75,246
History
26 May 1842 Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Godstone from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Godstone railway station.

Godstone railway station is on the Redhill to Tonbridge Line and serves Godstone in Surrey, England. It is approximately two miles south of the centre of the large semi-rural village, at South Godstone, an even more rural settlement overall in the civil parish which was entirely farmland until the coming of the railway, with a few scattered woodlands.

Tonbridge is not the natural terminus of the line, which continues straight to Ashford, Kent which has an international rail station.

History

The station was opened in 1842 by the South Eastern Railway.

The Bletchingley Tunnel (grid reference TQ340486), less than one mile due west of the station is about ½ mile long.

Services

The typical off peak service is one train per hour east to Tonbridge, calling at Edenbridge, Penshurst, Leigh and Tonbridge, and west to London Victoria, calling at Nutfield, Redhill, East Croydon, Clapham Junction and London Victoria

Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
Southern

Changes over time

The station became unstaffed in 1967 following which the original station buildings were demolished and replaced with small shelters.

In 1993 the line was electrified and services started to run through to London rather than being an extension of the Reading to Tonbridge North Downs Line service.

In 2007, a PERTIS machine was installed at the street entrance to the Tonbridge-bound platform. The station was until December 2008 operated by Southeastern before the Department for Transport approved the transfer suggested by Southern to its operations, whose green signage was installed before October 2008.

References

    Media related to Godstone railway station at Wikimedia Commons Surrey portal

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