Godstone railway station

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General information
Location	Tandridge
Coordinates	51.218°N 0.050°W / 51.218; -0.050
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	GDN
Key dates
26 May 1842	Opened

A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Godstone railway station.

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.

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 Bletchingley Tunnel (grid reference TQ340486), less than one mile due west of the station is about ½ mile long.

Services

The typical off peak service in trains per hour is:

• 1 tph to Redhill
• 1 tph to Tonbridge

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

Changes over time

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.

External links

• Media related to Godstone railway station at Wikimedia Commons
•  Surrey portal