Mortlake railway station is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south

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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. Postal district and boundary changes over many years mean that Mortlake now serves the area known as

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as well as the area of

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 cen ...

, both of which share the postcode. Mortlake is the closest station to the finish of the Oxford-Cambridge

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History

The station was opened on 27 July 1846, when the

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officially opened the line to Richmond for public service. Along with Richmond, it was not finished in time for a directors' special on 22 July 1846 and was still incomplete when the line opened due to delays in obtaining land. The original station was said to be similar to neighbouring Barnes Station in its Tudor Gothic-style, but much smaller. The office at Mortlake was described as being very small, with a very small entrance room and a small inner room for the ladies' waiting-room. None of the original station survives. It was renamed ''Mortlake & East Sheen'' in 1886, before it was renamed back to ''Mortlake'' in 1916.

Platforms and infrastructure

The station has two platforms: *Platform 1 is an eastbound platform for services to London Waterloo via

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. *Platform 2 is a westbound platform for services to London Waterloo via Richmond. There is a ticket office on Platform 2 and a footbridge between the two platforms. There is a

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just beyond the east end of the station. More than 3800 vehicles and nearly 2400 pedestrians use the crossing daily and 349 trains pass over the crossing each weekday. It is considered to be the fourth most risky CCTV-crossing on

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's Wessex Route.

Services

The typical off-peak service from the station is: * Eight trains per hour to London Waterloo, of which: **Four run direct via Clapham Junction **Two run via Richmond, Kingston and Wimbledon **Two run via Richmond and

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Connections

London Buses routes

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, 533,

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, and night route N22 serve the station.

References

External links

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