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St Helier railway station

National Rail station in London, England

Summary

National Rail station in London, England

Field	Value
name	St Helier
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railcode	SIH
manager	Thameslink
fare_zone	4
locale	St Helier
borough	London Borough of Merton
years1	5 January 1930
events1	Opened
platforms	2
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St Helier railway station is in the London Borough of Merton in South London. The station is served by Thameslink, and is on the Sutton Loop Line. It is in London fare zone 4.

History

Parliamentary approval for a line from Wimbledon to Sutton was obtained by the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway (W&SR) in 1910 but work was delayed by the First World War. From the W&SR's inception, the District Railway (DR) was a shareholder of the company and had rights to run trains over the line when it was built. In the 1920s, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL, precursor of London Underground) planned, through its ownership of the DR and the City and South London Railway (C&SLR, now the Northern line), to use part of the W&SR's route for an extension of the C&SLR to Sutton. The Southern Railway (SR) objected, and an agreement was reached that enabled the C&SLR to extend as far as Morden in exchange for the UERL giving up its rights over the W&SR route. The SR subsequently built the line, one of the last to be built in the London area. The station opened on 5 January 1930 when full services on the line were extended from South Merton.

The original concrete station building has been demolished.

Services

All services at St Helier are operated by Thameslink using EMUs.

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

2 tph to
2 tph to

A small number of late evening services are extended beyond St Albans City to , and daytime services on Sundays are extended to .

Connections

London Buses routes 154 and S2 serve the station.

References

Jackson, Alan A.. (December 1966). "The Wimbledon & Sutton Railway – A late arrival on the South London suburban scene".
{{NRtimes. May 2022. 173, 179

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