Reigate railway station
Reigate 
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| Location | |
| Place | Reigate |
| Local authority | Reigate and Banstead |
| Grid reference | TQ254507 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | REI |
| Managed by | Southern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | D |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 1.436 million |
| 2012/13 |
1.554 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.622 million |
| 2014/15 |
 1.613 million |
| 2015/16 |
1.319 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Reading Guildford & Reigate Railway |
| 4 July 1849 | opened as Reigate Town |
| 1 November 1898 | renamed Reigate |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Reigate from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Reigate railway station serves the town of Reigate, Surrey, England, on the North Downs Line. The station is managed by Southern, which use it as one of their termini and provide an hourly direct service to London Victoria.
The original Reigate stations were located two miles from the town centre in a hamlet then known as Warwick Town but which later became Redhill. Red Hill and Reigate Road station was opened by the London and Brighton Railway on 12 July 1841. The nearby town was then served by a horse-drawn omnibus service operated by the railway. This was followed on 26 May 1842 by the South Eastern Railway (SER) Red Hill station (later misleadingly renamed 'Reigate'). Both these stations closed on 15 April 1844 when a new joint Redhill and Reigate station opened on the site of the present Redhill railway station.
The current Reigate station opened 4 July 1849 with the opening of the branch line from Redhill to Reigate by the Reading Guildford and Reigate Railway. It was then called Reigate Town. The station was operated by the SER until 1898, the South Eastern and Chatham Railway until 1922, the Southern Railway (UK) until 1947 and British Railways until 1997.
The line to Redhill to Reigate was electrified 1 January 1933 but the remainder remains unelectrified.
The buildings on the north side are original, dating from 1849.
The station is 24 miles 27 chains (39.2 km) from Charing Cross, and has two platforms; platform 1 is long enough for an eight-coach train, but platform 2 only accommodates four coaches. The platforms are connected by a subway. Westbound services to Dorking, Guildford and Reading always leave from the south platform (2); so too do eastbound services to Redhill and London that start from Reigate. Eastbound through services to Redhill and Gatwick Airport leave from platform 1.
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