Barnes railway station is a Grade II listed station in the

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, in southwest

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, and is in

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. It is down the line from . The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway. It is the nearest station for Queen Mary's Hospital,

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grounds, and the

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History

The station at

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was opened on 27 July 1846, when the line to

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was built. When the first section of the

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was opened on 22 August 1849, Barnes became a junction station. Grade II

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, it was designed by the architect

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in 1846 and is the only survivor of four brick-built Tudor Gothic-style stations on the Richmond branch, the others being Putney, Mortlake, and Richmond. The ticket office, adjacent to Platform 1, is now privately owned. The Barnes rail crash, in which 13 people were killed and 41 injured, occurred near this station on 1 December 1955. The station is briefly seen at the end of 'Miracle in Crooked Lane', episode five of the third series of

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Platforms

The station has four platforms. *Platform 1: Local to

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) *Platform 2: Express to London Waterloo (Trains do not generally stop) *Platform 3: Local to

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(both routes),

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via

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via

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(Next station

Mortlake Mortlake is a suburban district of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on the south bank of the River Thames between Kew and Barnes. Historically it was part of Surrey and until 1965 was in the Municipal Borough of Barnes. For many centu ...

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) *Platform 4: Express to Windsor Riverside &

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(Trains do not generally stop) Platforms 1 & 2 are swapped on Sundays. On the London side of the station, there are four tracks; one pair turns off along the Loop Line here. There are 2 ticket machines by Platform 1. The platforms are accessible by a public footbridge, which connect to the bus stops, Station Road and a path to Roehampton. There are station facilities on the central island, however, these are not often open.

Services

The typical off-peak service from the station is: *8 tph (trains per hour) to

, calling at , , , Queenstown Road and

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*4 tph to , of which: **2 tph via , ,

, St Margarets, and **2 tph via departures call at , , , , and *2 tph to , calling at Barnes Bridge, Chiswick, Kew Bridge, Brentford, Syon Lane, Isleworth, Hounslow, , Ashford, , , , and *2 tph to

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, calling at Mortlake, North Sheen, Richmond, St Margarets, Twickenham, , , , Kingston, , and

Connections

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routes 33, 72,

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serve the station.

References

External links

Freeman, Leslie. ''The Coming of the Railway'', Barnes and Mortlake History Society, June 1996
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