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Richmond Station, Richmond, Surrey.jpg
Main entrance, on Kew Road. The apron shown has now been pedestrianised.



Richmond is located in Greater London

Richmond

Richmond



Location of Richmond in Greater London

Location Richmond
Local authority London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
Managed by South Western Railway
Owner Network Rail
Station code RMD
DfT category B
Number of platforms 7
Accessible Yes[1][2]
Fare zone 4
London Underground annual entry and exit
2013
Increase 7.95 million[3]
2014
Increase 8.45 million[3]
2015
Increase 8.66 million[3]
2016
Decrease 8.11 million[3]
2017
Increase 8.33 million[3]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2013–14
Increase 9.534 million[4]
– interchange
 1.886 million[4]
2014–15
Increase 9.768 million[4]
– interchange
 Decrease 1.877 million[4]
2015–16
Increase 11.859 million[4]
– interchange
 Decrease 1.642 million[4]
2016–17
Decrease 11.651 million[4]
– interchange
 Decrease 1.603 million[4]
2017–18
Decrease 11.494 million[4]
– interchange
 Increase 1.634 million[4]
Key dates
1846 Opened as Terminus (R&WER)
1848 Station moved (WS&SWR)
1869 Opened (L&SWR via Hammersmith)
1869 Started (NLR)
1870 Started and Ended (GWR)
1877 Started (MR and DR)
1894 Started (GWR)
1906 Ended (MR)
1910 Ended (GWR)
1916 Ended (L&SWR via Hammersmith)
1937 Stations merged (SR)
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WGS84
51°27′47″N 0°18′00″W / 51.463°N 0.300°W / 51.463; -0.300Coordinates: 51°27′47″N 0°18′00″W / 51.463°N 0.300°W / 51.463; -0.300

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Richmond, also known as Richmond (London), is a National Rail station in Richmond, Greater London on the Waterloo to Reading and North London Lines. South Western Railway services on the Waterloo to Reading Line are routed through Richmond, which is between North Sheen and St. Margarets stations, 9 miles 57 chains (15.6 km) down the line from London Waterloo.[5] For London Overground and London Underground services, the next station is Kew Gardens.




Contents






  • 1 Architecture


  • 2 History


    • 2.1 Accident


    • 2.2 Crossrail




  • 3 Platforms


  • 4 Off peak service


  • 5 Transport links


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Architecture


The station building, designed by James Robb Scott in Portland stone[6] and dating from 1937, is in Art Deco style and its facade includes a square clock.[7] The area in front of the station main entrance was pedestrianised in 2013.[8]



History


The Richmond and West End Railway (R&WER) opened the first station at Richmond on 27 July 1846,[9] as the terminus of its line from Clapham Junction, [10] on a site to the south of the present through platforms, which later became a goods yard and where a multi-storey car park now stands. The Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway (WS&SWR) extended the line westward, resiting the station to the west side of The Quadrant, on the extended tracks and slightly west of the present through platforms. Both the R&WER and WS&SWR were subsidiary companies of the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR).


On 1 January 1869,[11] the L&SWR opened a line to Richmond from north of Addison Road station (now Kensington (Olympia) station) on the West London Joint Railway. This line ran through Hammersmith (Grove Road) station, since closed, and Turnham Green and had connection with the North & South Western Junction Railway (N&SWJR) near Gunnersbury. Most of this line is now part of the London Underground District line; the line south from Gunnersbury was also served by the North London Railway (NLR) and is now used also by London Overground. Before this line was built, services north from Richmond ran somewhat circuitously via chords at Kew Bridge and Barnes.


The Great Western Railway (GWR) briefly (1 June to 31 October 1870) [9] ran a service from Paddington to Richmond via the Hammersmith & City Railway (now the Hammersmith & City line) tracks to Grove Road and then over the L&SWR tracks through Turnham Green.


On 1 June 1877, the District Railway (DR) linked its then terminus at Hammersmith to the nearby L&SWR tracks east of the present Ravenscourt Park station. The DR began running trains over the L&SWR tracks to Richmond.[11] On 1 October 1877,[9] the Metropolitan Railway (MR, now the Metropolitan line) restarted the former GWR service to Richmond via Grove Road station.


The DR route from Richmond to central London via Hammersmith was more direct than those of the NLR via Willesden Junction, of the L&SWR and the MR via Grove Road station and of the L&SWR via Clapham Junction to Waterloo. From 1 January 1894,[9] the GWR began sharing the MR Richmond service, resulting in Gunnersbury having the services of five operators.


After electrifying its tracks north of Acton Town in 1903, the DR funded the electrification, completed on 1 August 1905, from Gunnersbury to Richmond.[11] The DR ran electric trains on the branch, while the L&SWR, NLR, GWR and MR services continued to be steam hauled.


MR services ceased on 31 December 1906 and those of the GWR on 31 December 1910,[9] leaving operations northwards through Kew Gardens and Gunnersbury to the DR (by then known as the District Railway), the NLR and L&SWR. On 3 June 1916, the L&SWR withdrew its service from Richmond to Addison Road through Hammersmith due to competition from the District line,[9] leaving the District as the sole operator over that route and the NLR providing main line services via Willesden Junction.


Under the grouping of 1923, the L&SWR became part of the Southern Railway (SR) and the NLR became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS); both were subsequently nationalised into British Railways. On 1 August 1937, the SR opened its rebuilt station with the station building and the through platforms moved east to be next to the terminal platforms. At around the same time, the SR moved the goods yard from the site of the original terminus to a new location north-east of the station.



Accident


On 18 September 1987, an accident occurred at Richmond when a westbound District line hit the buffers of platform 6 and broke the glass/perspex panels behind. No passengers were seriously injured.[12]



Crossrail


A Crossrail branch to Kingston upon Thames via Richmond was proposed in 2003, but was dropped in 2004 due to a combination of local opposition, complex choices and engineering at the start of the route, cost, and insufficient return on investment. It could have run either overland or via a tunnel to Turnham Green and on the existing track through Gunnersbury to Richmond (which would have lost the District line service) and thence to Kingston.



Platforms


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Train at the station


The station has seven platforms numbered from south to north:



  • Platforms 1 and 2 are through platforms for South Western Railway services.

  • Platforms 3 to 7 are terminating platforms used by:

    • London Overground North London line services (normally platforms 3 and 4 but sometimes 5, 6 and 7)

    • London Underground District line services (normally platforms 5, 6 and 7. Occasionally 4 but never 3 due to 3's lack of a fourth rail, which the District Line uses for electric power).




As of September 2011, work was under way to extend platforms 1 and 2 to accept 10-car trains.[13] The bulk of the lengthening was to be at the west (country) end; extending eastwards was deemed unviable by Network Rail as Church Road Bridge would have needed widening.[14] As part of these works, the platform canopies were also being refurbished.


The wide gap between platforms 3 and 4 originally had a third, run-around track for steam locomotives.


Eight retail units are at the station: four eatery-cafés on alternate sides of the barriers (two on the rail side being thin and smaller) similarly two kiosks, the upper one being a hot drinks kiosk through to a M&S Simply Food grocery store. A florist and a WH Smith flank the entrance.



Off peak service


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



  • 8 direct to Waterloo (South Western Railway)

    • 2 fast calling at Clapham Junction only

    • 2 semi fast calling at Putney, Clapham Junction and Vauxhall

    • 4 all stations



  • 8 direct from Waterloo (South Western Railway)

    • 2 to Reading

    • 2 to Windsor & Eton Riverside

    • 2 indirectly returning to Waterloo via Hounslow and Brentford

    • 2 indirectly returning to Waterloo via Kingston and Wimbledon



  • 4 to Stratford (London Overground)

  • 6 to Upminster via Tower Hill (District line)



Transport links


London Buses serving nearby are:




































































































Route
Start
End
Operator

33
Fulwell
Hammersmith
London United

65
Kingston
Chessington (Nights)
Ealing Broadway
London United

190
West Brompton
 Richmond
Metroline

337
Clapham Junction
 Richmond
Go-Ahead London

371
Kingston
 Richmond
London United

391
Sands End
 Richmond
London United

419
Hammersmith
 Richmond
London United

490
Heathrow Airport Terminal 5
 Richmond
Abellio London

493
Tooting
 Richmond
Go-Ahead London

969
Whitton
Roehampton Vale
Abellio London

H22
Hounslow
 Richmond
London United

H37
Hounslow
 Richmond
London United

R68
Kew
Hampton Court
Abellio London

R70
Hampton
 Richmond
Abellio London

N22
Piccadilly Circus
Fulwell
Go-Ahead London

A taxi rank is near the station entrance on Kew Road. Steps or lifts can be used to reach all platforms.


An extensive bike storage facility is east outside the back entrance, Church Road, linked by 27 steps to a set of ticket barriers and the main platform area connecting platforms 2-7.



References





  1. ^ "Step free Tube Guide" (PDF). Transport for London. December 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 December 2018..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "London and South East" (PDF). National Rail. September 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2009.


  3. ^ abcde "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLSX). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.


  4. ^ abcdefghij "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.


  5. ^ Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald, ed. Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 1L. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.


  6. ^ Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner (1983). The Buildings of England – London 2: South. London: Penguin Books. p. 521. ISBN 0 14 0710 47 7.


  7. ^ "Art Deco Gallery – Stations etc". london-footprints.co.uk. 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2013.


  8. ^ "'Jewel in the Crown' of a historic Town centre". Construct. FM Conway. Spring 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.


  9. ^ abcdef Clive's Underground Line Guides – Hammersmith & City Line


  10. ^ Clive's Underground Line Guides – Hammersmith & City Line


  11. ^ abc Clive's Underground Line Guides – District Line


  12. ^ "Underground train crashes: Richmond 18-9-87". Thames News. Youtube. Retrieved 13 April 2018.


  13. ^ [1][permanent dead link][dead link]


  14. ^ [2] Archived 15 July 2012 at Archive.is




External links








  • Train times and station information for Richmond station (London) from National Rail

  • Transport for London Richmond station

  • www.Old-maps.co.uk — Richmond station, 1871























































































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Terminus North London Line
Kew Gardens

towards Stratford

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Terminus
District line
North London Line
Kew Gardens

towards Upminster


National Rail National Rail

North Sheen
  
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Hounslow/Kingston loop line

  
St Margarets

Putney
  
South Western Railway
Waterloo - Windsor

  
Twickenham

Clapham Junction
  
South Western Railway
Waterloo - Reading

  
Twickenham
 
Former services
  

Terminus
  
London and South Western Railway
(1869-1916)
  
Kew Gardens
towards West Brompton
 
Metropolitan Railway
(1877-1906)
  
Kew Gardens
towards Paddington
 
Great Western Railway
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Abandoned Plans
  

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Central line
(1913 & 1920)
Kew Gardens

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