Godstone railway station

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Godstone
Location	Godstone, Tandridge England
Coordinates	51°13′05″N 0°03′00″W / 51.218°N 0.050°W / 51.218; -0.050Coordinates: 51°13′05″N 0°03′00″W / 51.218°N 0.050°W / 51.218; -0.050
Grid reference	TQ362483
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	GDN
Classification	DfT category F2
Key dates
26 May 1842	Opened
Passengers
2016/17	58,346
2017/18	66,190
2018/19	75,704
2019/20	64,372
2020/21	20,618
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Godstone railway station is on the Redhill to Tonbridge Line and serves Godstone in Surrey, England. It is 28 miles 13 chains (28.16 miles, 45.32 km) measured from London Charing Cross via Redhill. It is approximately two miles south of the centre of the large semi-rural village, at South Godstone, an even more rural settlement overall in the civil parish which was entirely farmland until the coming of the railway, with a few scattered woodlands. The Bletchingley Tunnel (grid reference

TQ340486), less than one mile due west of the station is about ½ mile long. Tonbridge is not the natural terminus of the line, which continues straight to Ashford, Kent which has international links with France and Belgium.

History[]

The station was opened in 1842 by the South Eastern Railway.

The station became unstaffed in 1967 following which the original station buildings were demolished and replaced with small shelters.

In 1993 the line was electrified and services started to run through to London rather than being an extension of the Reading to Tonbridge North Downs Line service.

In 2007, a PERTIS machine was installed at the street entrance to the Tonbridge-bound platform. The station was until December 2008 operated by Southeastern before the Department for Transport approved the transfer suggested by Southern to its operations, whose green signage was installed before October 2008.

Facilities[]

The station is unstaffed and there is a self-service ticket machine available as well as information screens and help points for train information. Step-free access is available to the Tonbridge bound platform only at the station.^[1]

There is a small free car park and bicycle storage is available at the station.^[2]

Services[]

All services at Godstone are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[3]

• 1 tph to Redhill
• 1 tph to Tonbridge

Services increase to 2 tph in each direction during the peak hours.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Nutfield		Southern Redhill to Tonbridge Line		Edenbridge

Bus Connections[]

The station is served by the Southdown PSV route 409 which provides connections to Selsdon, Caterham and East Grinstead.^[4]

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Godstone railway station.

• Train times and station information for Godstone railway station from National Rail

•  Surrey portal