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
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Increase 77,018
2013/14 Decrease 75,246
2014/15 Increase 79,686
2015/16 Decrease 76,942
2016/17 Decrease 58,346
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 28 miles 13 chains (45.32 km) measured from London Charing Cross via Redhill. 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 Redhill, calling at Nutfield and Redhill

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.

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