Sunbury railway station (Surrey) explained

Sunbury
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:raild
Borough:Sunbury-on-Thames, Spelthorne
Country:England
Coordinates:51.4182°N -0.4176°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:South Western Railway
Platforms:2
Code:SUU
Classification:DfT category D
Opened:1 November 1864
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Sunbury railway station serves the town of Sunbury-on-Thames, in the Spelthorne district of Surrey, England. It is 16chain64chain down the line from . The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway.

History

The Shepperton branch opened to passengers with a single track on 1 November 1864. Its promoters' scheme first intended to link this to what became today's District line and potentially to Woking railway station. A second scheme (abandoned 1862) intended it to extend to the Middlesex bank of the Thames east of Chertsey Bridge to serve the established town of Chertsey.[1] The curve linking Fulwell and Teddington initially opened to freight on 1 July 1894 and then carried passengers on 1 June 1901 as the replacement principal route. The line was electrified on 30 January 1916.

Services

All services at Sunbury are operated by South Western Railway.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

During the peak hours, the station is served by four morning services to London Waterloo that run via instead of Wimbledon as well as two evening services from London Waterloo via the same route.

On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction.

Connections

London bus routes 216 and 235, and local bus routes 555 and 557, all serve the station.

Notes and References

  1. London's Local Railways by Alan A. Jackson, Capital Transport (1999);