Redhill railway station
Redhill 
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| Location | |
| Place | Redhill |
| Local authority | Borough of Reigate and Banstead |
| Coordinates | 51°14′25″N 0°09′57″W / 51.24022°N 0.165900°WCoordinates: 51°14′25″N 0°09′57″W / 51.24022°N 0.165900°W |
| Grid reference | TQ281506 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | RDH |
| Managed by | Southern |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| DfT category | C1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 3.582 million |
| 2012/13 |
3.629 million |
| 2013/14 |
 3.571 million |
| 2014/15 |
3.550 million |
| 2015/16 |
3.890 million |
| History | |
| 12 July 1841 | Redhill and Reigate Road opened (L&BR) |
| 26 May 1842 | Redhill opened (SER) renamed Reigate in 1843. |
| 15 April 1844 | Reigate (SER) and Redhill and Reigate Road (L&BR) closed. New Reigate station opened |
| August 1858 | Reigate station reopened as Red Hill Junction (SER) |
| July 1929 | Renamed Redhill |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Redhill from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Redhill railway station serves the town of Redhill, Surrey, England. The station is a major interchange point on the Brighton Main Line 21 miles (34 km) south of London Victoria. It is managed by Southern, which operates most trains serving Redhill.
The local topography determined that it was cheaper to build and operate a railway line between London and Brighton which by-passed the parliamentary borough and long-established market town of Reigate and instead passed through the nearby Redstone or Red Hill gap in the Reigate Foreign (countryside) parish. According to the Acts of Parliament establishing railways between London and Brighton, and London and Dover, the line was to be shared between Croydon and Red Hill after which these two would deviate. The London and Brighton Railway (L&BR) constructed the new line during 1840 and 1841, with the South Eastern Railway (SER) contributing half of the construction cost and taking ownership of the section between Croydon and Red Hill. (The SER had however been running services over the line since 1842.) The inevitable and continuing conflict between the two railway companies over the use of this joint line gave rise to the construction of four railway stations at the site of what was then a hamlet on the eastern side of Reigate.
The original station was opened by the London and Brighton Railway on 12 July 1841 on a site to the south of the proposed junction with the South Eastern Main Line to Dover. The nearby market town was served by a horse-drawn omnibus service operated by the railway. This station was designed by the architect David Mocatta, and was one of a series of standardised modular buildings used by the railway. It closed on 15 April 1844, when the LBR began to share the SER Redhill and Reigate station and was demolished soon afterwards.
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