Reigate railway station
Reigate  | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Reigate |
| Local authority | Reigate and Banstead |
| Grid reference | TQ254507 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | REI |
| Managed by | Southern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | D |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2004/05 | 0.799 million |
| 2005/06 |
 0.896 million |
| 2006/07 |
0.970 million |
| 2007/08 |
1.231 million |
| 2008/09 |
1.252 million |
| 2009/10 |
1.287 million |
| 2010/11 |
1.314 million |
| 2011/12 |
1.436 million |
| 2012/13 |
1.554 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.622 million |
| 2014/15 |
 1.613 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 4 July 1849 |
| Original company | Reading Guildford & Reigate Railway |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Reigate from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
| UK Railways portal | |
Reigate railway station serves the town of Reigate, Surrey, England, on the North Downs Line. The station is managed by Southern, which use it as one of their termini and provide an hourly direct service to London Victoria.
History
The original Reigate stations were located two miles from the town centre in a hamlet then known as Warwick Town but which later became Redhill. Red Hill and Reigate Road station was opened by the London and Brighton Railway on 12 July 1841. The nearby town was then served by a horse-drawn omnibus service operated by the railway. This was followed on 26 May 1842 by the South Eastern Railway (SER) Red Hill station (later misleadingly renamed 'Reigate'). Both these stations closed on 15 April 1844 when a new joint Redhill and Reigate station opened on the site of the present Redhill railway station.
The current Reigate station opened 4 July 1849 with the opening of the branch line from Redhill to Reigate by the Reading Guildford and Reigate Railway. It was then called Reigate Town. The station was operated by the SER until 1898, the South Eastern and Chatham Railway until 1922, the Southern Railway (UK) until 1947 and British Railways until 1997.
The line to Redhill to Reigate was electrified 1 January 1933 but the remainder remains unelectrified.
Station building
The buildings on the down side are original, dating from 1849.
Platforms
First-time users are often confused how to get between platforms when the ticket office is shut: there is a signposted but often overlooked underpass approximately 15 metres west of the ticket office over to Platform 2. On Sundays the ticket office is shut, so access to the less-used north platform (1) is enabled via a gate set into the fence approximately 40 metres further away from the subway. Westbound services to Dorking, Guildford and Reading always leave from the south platform (2); as a terminus, so too does the service to London Bridge via Redhill. Eastbound services toward Gatwick Airport via Redhill leave from platform 1.
Services
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Dorking Deepdene | Great Western Railway North Downs Line fast and stopping services between Reading and Gatwick Airport |
Redhill | ||
| Betchworth | Great Western Railway North Downs Line hourly in peak hours/every two hours |
Redhill | ||
| Terminus | Southern Redhill Route |
Redhill | ||
Southern
Southern currently operates an hourly train to and from London Victoria which terminates at Reigate. These trains call at Redhill, East Croydon and Clapham Junction. This service does not run on Sundays.[1]
Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway operates two trains per hour westbound to Reading (one stopping, one semi-fast) and two trains per hour eastbound to Redhill, of which one continues to Gatwick Airport.
Westbound, the semi-fast service calls only at Dorking (Deepdene), Guildford, North Camp, Blackwater, Wokingham and Reading. This service starts from Gatwick Airport. The stopping service's calling points alternate every two hours as follows:
| Hour 1 | Dorking (Deepdene) | Gomshall | Chilworth | Shalford | Guildford | Ash | North Camp | Farnborough North | Blackwater | Sandhurst | Crowthorne | Wokingham | Reading | ||
| Hour 2 | Betchworth | Dorking (Deepdene) | Dorking West | Shalford | Guildford | Ash | North Camp | Farnborough North | Blackwater | Sandhurst | Crowthorne | Wokingham | Reading |
This service starts from Redhill.
Similarly, eastbound, the stopping service runs only to Redhill (non-stop), while the semi-fast service continues to Gatwick Airport.
In peak hours the stopping service calls at all stations in both directions.[2]
On Sundays the service is hourly in each direction. Eastbound, all off-peak trains continue to Gatwick Airport. Westbound, trains alternate each hour between:
- running semi-fast to Guildford, then stopping at all stations to Reading;
- stopping at all stations to Guildford, then running semi-fast to Reading.
Signal box
The station also incorporates a signal box, built in 1929 to replace an earlier box at the other end of the station. This remained in use in 2012 to operate the Level crossing gates.
Notes and references
- Notes
- References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reigate railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Reigate railway station from National Rail
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Coordinates: 51°14′31″N 0°12′14″W / 51.242°N 0.204°W