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National Rail station in London, England
Strawberry Hill railway station
is in
Strawberry Hill
in the
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
in south west
London
, and is in
Travelcard Zone 5
. It is 12
miles
22
chains
(19.8 km) down the line from
London Waterloo
. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by
South Western Railway
. The station is equipped with
Oyster card
swipe terminals.
The line through Strawberry Hill (the
Kingston Loop
) opened in 1863, but Strawberry Hill station did not open until 1 December 1873. The current booking office building on the up, or western, side and the platform canopies date from the 1935 modernisation. Lifting barriers replaced the
level crossing
swing gates in 1973, the signal box was demolished in 1975.
Strawberry Hill train maintenance depot, built in 1897, is inside the triangular junction of the Shepperton Branch Line with the Kingston Loop Line.
Services
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All services at Strawberry Hill are operated by
South Western Railway
.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
[2]
During the peak hours, the station is served by four morning services from
Shepperton
to London Waterloo and two evening services from London Waterloo to Shepperton.
On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction.
References
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- Mitchell, Vic (1990).
London Suburban Railways: Kingston and Hounslow Loops
. Middleton Press.
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