Norbiton railway station

Norbiton railway station
Norbiton National Rail
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Norbiton is located in Greater London
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Norbiton

Location of Norbiton in Greater London
Location Norbiton
Local authority Kingston upon Thames
Managed by South West Trains
Station code NBT
Number of platforms 2
Fare zone 5

National Rail annual entry and exit
2004-05 increase 1.250 million[1]
2005-06 decrease 1.211 million[1]
2006-07 decrease 2.071 million[1]
2007-08 increase 2.307 million[1]
2008-09 decrease 2.243 million[1]

1 January 1869 Opened

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Coordinates: 51°24′45″N 0°17′02″W / 51.4124°N 0.2838°W / 51.4124; -0.2838

Norbiton railway station is in Norbiton, a suburb in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in south west London. It is on the Kingston Loop Line. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South West Trains. It is in Travelcard Zone 5 and is a short walk from Kingston Hospital.

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History

Coaching interests in Kingston were opposed to having a railway in the town and consequently the London and South Western Railway built its line to Southampton further south through Surbiton. This opposition continued even during the laying of the line from Twickenham although this line did reach a terminus in Kingston in 1863. In 1869 the line was extended through Norbiton to connect to the main line southwest of the present New Malden station.

When Queen Victoria visited distinguished residents in the Coombe Hill area, the royal train stopped at Norbiton, the only station in the area where the platform is at ground level. New Malden and Kingston have many steps.

Platforms

Norbiton station has two platforms.

  • Platform 1 - Trains to London Waterloo via Wimbledon.
  • Platform 2 - Trains to London Waterloo via Kingston & Richmond and trains to Shepperton.

Services

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

Popular culture references

The station was used as the filming location from which the title character caught his train each morning (with decreasing punctuality) in the British sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Although Reggie's home town in the series was called Climthorpe, a panning shot of the front of the station in the first episode shows him walking into Norbiton station. (The area remains largely unchanged, with the Frederick W. Paine funeral parlour and the zebra crossing across Coombe Road still in place, although a small number of buildings in front of the main station entrance have since been demolished.) David Nobbs may have thought of Climthorpe as near Norbiton, since various other stations between New Malden and London are named in Reggie's various excuses to explain his poor punctuality [1].

The station also appeared briefly in a 1971 episode of the Rodney Bewes sitcom Dear Mother...Love Albert.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
New Malden   South West Trains
Kingston Loop Line
  Kingston

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. 30 April 2010. http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1529. Retrieved 17 January 2011.  Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.

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