Richmond | |
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Entrance to Kew Road
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Location of Richmond in Greater London
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Location | Richmond |
Local authority | London Borough of Richmond upon Thames |
Managed by | South West Trains |
Owner | Network Rail |
Station code | RMD |
DfT category | B |
Number of platforms | 7 |
Accessible | Yes |
Fare zone | 4 |
London Underground annual entry and exit | |
2009 | 7.60 million |
2012 | 7.56 million |
2013 | 7.95 million |
2014 | 8.45 million |
2015 | 8.66 million |
National Rail annual entry and exit | |
2011–12 | 8.402 million |
2012–13 | 9.093 million |
2013–14 | 9.534 million |
– interchange | 1.886 million |
2014–15 | 9.768 million |
– interchange | 1.877 million |
2015–16 | 11.859 million |
– interchange | 1.642 million |
Key dates | |
1846 | Opened as Terminus (R&WER) |
1848 | Station moved (WS&SWR) |
1869 | Opened (L&SWR via Hammersmith) |
1869 | Started (NLR) |
1870 | Started and Ended (GWR) |
1877 | Started (MR and DR) |
1894 | Started (GWR) |
1906 | Ended (MR) |
1910 | Ended (GWR) |
1916 | Ended (L&SWR via Hammersmith) |
1937 | Stations merged (SR) |
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WGS84 | 51°27′47″N 0°18′00″W / 51.463°N 0.300°WCoordinates: 51°27′47″N 0°18′00″W / 51.463°N 0.300°W |
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Richmond, also known as Richmond (London), is a National Rail and London Underground station, managed by South West Trains, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London. South West Trains services on the Waterloo to Reading Line are routed through Richmond, which is between North Sheen and St. Margarets stations. Richmond is also a terminus of one of the branches of London Underground's District line and for the London Overground's North London Line; the next station on both these lines, to the northeast, is Kew Gardens.
The station building, designed by James Robb Scott in Portland stone and dating from 1937, is in Art Deco style and its facade includes a square clock. The area in front of the station main entrance was pedestrianised in 2013.
The Richmond and West End Railway (R&WER) opened the first station at Richmond on 27 July 1846 as the terminus of its line from Clapham Junction on a site, which later became a goods yard, to the south of the present through platforms and where a multi-storey car park now stands. The Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway (WS&SWR) extended the line westward resiting the station to the west side of The Quadrant, on the extended tracks slightly west of the present through platforms. Both the R&WER and WS&SWR were subsidiary companies of the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR).