Earlswood (Surrey) railway station

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Earlswood (Surrey)

Location

Place

Earlswood

Local authority

Reigate and Banstead

Operations

Station code

ELD

Managed by

Southern

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.226 million

2005/06 *

0.255 million

History

Key dates

Opened 1 August 1868

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Earlswood (Surrey) from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Earlswood railway station serves Earlswood, south of Redhill, in Surrey. It is on the Brighton Main Line, and train services are provided by Southern.

1 Services
2 Future developments
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Services

The typical service from the station is one train per hour to London Bridge, and one train per hour to Horsham.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Redhill		Southern Brighton Main Line Mondays-Saturdays only		Salfords
Redhill		Southeastern Horsham to Tunbridge Wells (via Gatwick and Redhill) Mondays-Fridays only		Salfords

[edit] Future developments

The Thameslink Programme (formerly Thameslink 2000) project proposes to turn some of the Southern services over to the expanded Thameslink network under First Capital Connect. This will see services that currently terminate at London Bridge continuing through Central London and north wards via the Midland Main Line or East Coast Main Line to destinations such as Luton or Cambridge. This however is not imminent, a Department for Transport whitepaper states only that "the Thameslink Programme will be completed by the end of 2015" and that "interim outputs will be delivered by the end of 2011"^[1], leaving Southern as the main operator for several more years to come. The Thameslink Programme is centred around 12 car long trains, thus Earlswood station could potentially have its platforms lengthened as they can only currently accommodate 10 car long trains.