Belmont railway station (Sutton)

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Belmont

BelmontLocation of Belmont in Greater London
Location	Belmont
Local authority	London Borough of Sutton
Managed by	Southern
Station code(s)	BLM
DfT category	F1
Number of platforms	1
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	5
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20	0.180 million
2020–21	57,358
2021–22	0.108 million
2022–23	0.145 million
2023–24	0.178 million
Key dates
22 May 1865	Opened as California
1 October 1875	Renamed Belmont
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51°20′38″N 0°11′55″W / 51.344°N 0.1986°W / 51.344; -0.1986
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Belmont railway station serves the village of Belmont in the London Borough of Sutton in south London. The station is located on the Epsom Downs line and is in Travelcard Zone 5. It is 16 miles 1 chain (16.01 miles, 25.77 km) down the line from London Bridge measured via West Croydon. It is the closest station to the Royal Marsden Hospital, which is just under half a mile away. On 19 January 2023, Sutton Council were granted £14,121,979 from the government to add a turnback siding to the south of the station to increase capacity to let services run at 4 tph instead of the current 2 tph service pattern.

History

The station was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway on 22 May 1865, as part of the Epsom Downs branch line. The branch was originally laid as double track because of the race traffic, and was electrified on 17 June 1928. A modern CLASP (pre-fabricated concrete) building was erected in the 1970s (this has since been demolished and cleared away). The branch was singled in 1982 and all trains use the former down platform. The station itself has a ticket machine, cycle storage huts and a passenger waiting shelter.

The station was originally named 'California', and was changed to 'Belmont' on 1 October 1875.

Future

On 19 January 2023, Sutton Council were granted £14,121,979 from the government to add a turnback siding to the south of the station to increase capacity to let services run at 4tph instead of the current 2 tph service pattern. Construction is expected to finish in 2026.

Services

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

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

2 tph to London Victoria via Norbury
2 tph to Epsom Downs

Prior to May 2018, the station was served by an hourly service on weekdays and Saturdays only, with no Sunday service. In May 2018, a half-hourly service was introduced on all days of the week.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Sutton		Southern Epsom Downs Branch		Banstead

Connections

London Buses routes 80, 280, S1, S3, S4 and non-TfL routes 420 and 820 serve the station.

References

"Network Map". Southern. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
^ "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
Yonge, John (November 2008) . Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 22. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
"Gove denies £19m levelling up cash for Richmond in Yorkshire is headed there 'because the MP is Rishi Sunak'". lbc.co.uk. 19 January 2023.
"Trains from Sutton to the London Cancer Hub to double in frequency". 19 January 2023.
^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. pp. 51, 32. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
"Ian Visits". 26 June 2023.
"Levelling up Funding will double train services to Belmont in Surrey". railadvent.co.uk. 19 January 2023.
Table 172 National Rail timetable, May 2022
"Buses from Belmont" (PDF). TfL. 14 May 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2022.

External links

Train times and station information for Belmont railway station (Sutton) from National Rail
Map of Mole Valley lines
The Epsom Downs branch website

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