Leigh railway station is on the

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and serves

Leigh Leigh may refer to: Places In England Pronounced : * Leigh, Greater Manchester, Borough of Wigan ** Leigh (UK Parliament constituency) * Leigh-on-Sea, Essex Pronounced : * Leigh, Dorset * Leigh, Gloucestershire * Leigh, Kent * Leigh, Staf ...

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, England. It is measured from via . Train services are operated by

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History

The station was opened as "Leigh Halt" in 1911; was renamed "Lyghe Halt" in 1917; "Leigh Halt" again about 1960; and "Leigh" in 1969. (Leigh is pronounced (''lie'')—identical with the name of

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in the West Midlands.). The station was destaffed in 1967. In 1993 the line was electrified and services started to run through to London rather than being an extension of the Reading to Tonbridge

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service. In 2007, a PERTIS machine was installed at the street entrance to the Tonbridge-bound platform (since replaced by a modern ticket machine). The station was until December 2008 operated by

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before it transferred to

, whose green signage was installed before October 2008.

Facilities and Connections

Leigh station is unstaffed and facilities are limited. Tickets can be purchased from the self-service

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at the station and there are passenger help points located on each platforms. There is also a basic shelter located on each platform. The station has step free access available to both platforms. The station is served Monday-Saturday by the Autocar route 210 which provides connections to

Tonbridge Tonbridge ( ) is a market town in Kent, England, on the River Medway, north of Royal Tunbridge Wells, south west of Maidstone and south east of London. In the administrative borough of Tonbridge and Malling, it had an estimated population ...

and

Chiddingstone Causeway Chiddingstone Causeway is a village west of Tonbridge in Kent, England. It is within the Sevenoaks local government district. It is in the civil parish of Chiddingstone. The village is served by Penshurst Station on the Redhill to Tonbridge Li ...

Services

All services at Leigh are operated by

using Class 377

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to * 1 tph to Services increase to 2 tph in each direction during the peak hours.

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{{TSGN and SE Stations, Redhill=y, FCC None=y, SE None=y Buildings and structures in Sevenoaks District Railway stations in Kent DfT Category F1 stations Former South Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1911 Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway 1911 establishments in England