Walton-on-Thames railway station is at the southern edge of the town of Walton-on-Thames in

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and borders

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, Hersham. It is from and is situated between and . The station's main entrance borders the

Ashley Park Ashley Park is a private residential neighbourhood at Walton-on-Thames in Surrey. Its central feature was a grandiose English country house, at times enjoying associated medieval manorial rights, which stood on the site, with alterations, betw ...

area of the largely residential town and features a taxi rank and pick-up apron. The station opened as ''Walton for Hersham'' in 1838 and today has rush hour services two stops from central London. Only the two outer platforms on the slow lines are currently used. The central island platform is disused.

Services

Services from Walton-on-Thames are split into

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(Monday - Friday, early mornings and evenings), off peak (Monday - Friday, Saturday) and Sunday.

Rush hour

*4 trains per hour (tph) to London Waterloo, stopping to Surbiton then, non stop to London Waterloo. *2tph to Woking *2tph to Basingstoke Rush hour services to London Waterloo only operate in the morning, and services to Woking and Guildford operate in the evening rush hour with one service running semi fast to Basingstoke.

Off peak

*2tph to

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, stopping service *2tph to London Waterloo, semi fast *2tph to

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, stopping service *2tph to

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, semi fast to Woking then stopping to Basingstoke There are also three direct trains to Portsmouth Harbour two via Basingstoke one via Guildford per day, Mon - Sat, and one direct train to Branksome in the early morning. In the evening there are two services from Portsmouth Harbour via Basingstoke and one from Weymouth to Walton on Thames.

Sundays

*2tph to London Waterloo, stopping service *1tph to London Waterloo, semi fast *2tph to Guildford, stopping service *1tph to Woking semi fast where the train divides to either Basingstoke or Alton

History

The station first operated in 1838, and was one of the first stations on the South West Main Line, between Ditton Marsh (now Esher) and

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. The first services ran from

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to Woking Common (now Woking). The middle platforms were abandoned when slower services only used the outer tracks, leaving the inside tracks for non stop services to Woking. Abellio Surrey 8770 LK56 JKO 4

Ticket gates and accessibility

Walton-on-Thames railway station was one of the first stations selected by South West Trains to have automatic ticket gates installed at all of the exits to the station. These were installed and in operation on 25 June 2009. There were also smartcard validators installed, intended (in the future) for use when the barriers are unattended and open. As of June 2018, there was a digital barcode scanner installed for mobile ticketing on Platform 1. Ramps were installed on 31 October 2009, making both platforms accessible to all from street level. Access from the

/ ticket office side of the station to the Burwood Park side requires use of the railway-owned subway which is via a short flight of steps or a detour of more than 600m by road or pavement. This station has a taxi rank and bus stops. Bus routes 458 and 555 serve the station, both connecting passengers to the town centre. In 2016, a petition was started by a local resident calling for London Travelcard Zone 6 to be extended to include this station, as well as and stations.

Immediate surroundings

The station is just north of the approximate midpoint of the medieval

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boundaries of Walton. Today it is on the southern boundary of Walton and the northern boundary of Hersham, and more particularly between two large-plot, neighbourhoods of

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and Ashley Park. These are predominantly

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and have avenues and greens; they are not a

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with no buildings which pre-date 1750 but the former has one or two

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s for architecture. The commercial centre of Walton is north.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Walton-On-Thames Railway Station Railway stations in Surrey Former London and South Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1838 Railway stations served by South Western Railway Borough of Elmbridge