Norbiton railway station

Norbiton
South Western Railway
Norbiton South Western Railway
Station code	NBT
DfT category	C2
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	5
National Rail annual entry and exit
2018–19	2.470 million
2019–20	2.283 million
2020–21	0.603 million
2021–22	1.384 million
2022–23	1.771 million
Key dates
1 January 1869	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures; Layout; Facilities; Buses;
Coordinates	51°24′45″N 0°17′02″W / 51.4124°N 0.2838°W
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Norbiton Railway Station is a railway station located in

Travelcard Zone 5 and is a short walk from Kingston Hospital. It is also the most convenient station for the Kingsmeadow

football ground.

History

Coaching interests in Kingston were opposed to having a railway in the town and consequently, the

Kingston in 1863. In 1869 the line was extended through Norbiton to connect to the central line southwest of the present New Malden

station.

When

Kingston

have many steps. It is the only remaining Victorian railway architecture in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.^[citation needed]

Station facilities

In February and March 2012 a secure, swipe-card accessible cycle park for 50 cycles was built on Platform 1 replacing the previous set of shelters and bike racks

In August 2009 the platforms were fenced with high steel railings before the installation of ticket barriers. In 2011 the single-width 'off-peak' gated exit from platform 2 was doubled in width to cope with the large numbers of passengers leaving the station when the barriers are not operational. In 2014 the gated exit was widened again.

During the autumn of 2014, platforms 1 and 2 were raised and the edges reconstructed to reduce the step and gap for passengers getting on and off the trains. Earlier in 2014, the platforms were extended in preparation for longer trains.

There is a 38-space car park and space for 5 vehicles reserved for

South Western Railway

staff.

Platforms

Norbiton station has two platforms.

Platform 1 – Trains to London Waterloo via Wimbledon.
Platform 2 – Trains to London Waterloo via Kingston & Richmond and trains to Shepperton.

Services

All services at Norbiton are operated by

South Western Railway

.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[2]

4 tph to London Waterloo via Wimbledon
2 tph to Shepperton
2 tph to Teddington, returning to London Waterloo via Richmond

On Sundays, the services to and from London Waterloo via Wimbledon are reduced to 2 tph and the services to and from Shepperton and Teddington are reduced to hourly.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
New Malden		Kingston Loop Line		Kingston

Popular culture references

In the British sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the station was used as the filming location from which the title character caught his train each morning (with decreasing punctuality). Although Reggie's home town in the series was called Climthorpe, a panning shot of the front of the station in the first episode shows him walking into Norbiton station. (The area remains largely unchanged, with the Frederick W. Paine funeral parlour and the zebra crossing across Coombe Road still in place, although a small number of buildings in front of the main station entrance have since been demolished.) David Nobbs may have thought of Climthorpe as near Norbiton, since various other stations between New Malden and London are named in Reggie's multiple excuses to explain his poor punctuality [1].

The station also appeared briefly in a 1971 episode of the Rodney Bewes sitcom Dear Mother...Love Albert.