Dorking Deepdene railway station is a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
in the town of
Dorking
Dorking () is a market town in Surrey in South East England, about south of London. It is in Mole Valley District and the council headquarters are to the east of the centre. The High Street runs roughly east–west, parallel to the Pipp Br ...
,
Surrey
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,
England
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. Located on the
North Downs Line
The North Downs Line is a passenger-train line connecting Reading, on the Great Western Main Line, to Redhill and , along the Brighton Main Line, linking many centres of population in that part of the North Downs which it traverses en route.
...
, it lies from (via ).
The station is one of three within Dorking, alongside (elsewhere on the North Downs line) and (on the
Mole Valley line
The Sutton and Mole Valley lines were constructed between 1847 and 1868 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, the London and South Western Railway and the LBSCR-sponsored Horsham, Dorking and Leatherhead Railway.
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). The station is within walking distance of Dorking station and interchange on a through ticket is permitted.
Dorking Deepdene is managed by
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
, which also operates all services through the station.
The station has two platforms, each long enough to accommodate a four-carriage train. It is unstaffed and has no ticket office.
[Station facilities for Dorking Deepdene](_blank)
– National Rail Enquiries Tickets can be bought on trains, at the automatic
ticket machine
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at the entrance to the station,
or at the ticket office at nearby Dorking station, which sells tickets for all National Rail services. The station is located on an embankment above street level and the platforms can only be reached by steps;
passengers who require step-free access are advised to instead use Dorking West station, approximately to the west, which is fully wheelchair-accessible.
History
The Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway (RG&RR) was authorised in 1846 and opened in stages. One of the first parts to open was between and Dorking, on 4 July 1849;
the terminus was at the present-day
Dorking West station.
![Deepdene railway station geograph-2673321-by-Ben-Brooksbank](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Deepdene_railway_station_geograph-2673321-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg)
A second station in Dorking (what is now Dorking Deepdene) was not built until 1 February 1851; when it opened, it was originally named "Box Hill and Leatherhead Road" and it was shortened to "Box Hill" in March the same year.
The RG&RR was soon absorbed by the
South Eastern Railway (SER).
[
The station at Box Hill was temporarily closed from 1 January 1917, and reopened on 1 January 1919.][ In the ]1923 grouping
The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, by "grouping" them into four la ...
the SER became part of the new Southern Railway, which on 9 June of that year renamed the station "Deepdene" to avoid confusion with station. On 11 May 1987 British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...
ways renamed the station "Dorking (Deepdene)".
Services
The typical off-peak service pattern (Monday to Sunday) is two trains per hour each way between and ; one train per hour continues beyond Redhill to and from .[Train Times and Timetables](_blank)
– Great Western Railway Services to and from Gatwick call only at principal stations en route, while those to and from Redhill stop at most intermediate stations in both directions. Service frequency is reduced to hourly or two-hourly during the evenings.
Future proposals
In November 2018, a £21 million upgrade of Dorking Deepdene station was proposed by the Dorking Town Forum, who submitted a nomination for funding from Network Rail. The proposal includes:
* relocation of the platforms east of the current site (immediately west of the bridge over the Mole Valley line
The Sutton and Mole Valley lines were constructed between 1847 and 1868 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, the London and South Western Railway and the LBSCR-sponsored Horsham, Dorking and Leatherhead Railway.
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);
* construction of two new lifts, to allow step-free access to both platforms, and a pair of new waiting rooms;
* a direct foot link between Dorking Deepdene and stations, by means of a new -long walkway constructed along the western edge of the Mole Valley line.
References
External links
{{Transport in Surrey
Railway stations in Surrey
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Former South Eastern Railway (UK) stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1851
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919
Railway stations served by Great Western Railway
1851 establishments in England