West Sutton railway station


West Sutton railway station is in the London Borough of Sutton in South London, England. The station is served by Thameslink trains on the Sutton Loop Line. It is in Travelcard Zone 5. It is close to Gander Green Lane, the home ground of Sutton United.

History

Parliamentary approval for a line from Wimbledon to Sutton had been obtained by the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway in 1910 but work had been delayed by World War I. From the W&SR's inception, the District Railway was a shareholder of the company and had rights to run trains over the line when built. In the 1920s, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London planned, through its ownership of the DR, to use part of the route for an extension of the City and South London Railway to Sutton. The 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. West Sutton station replaced the UERL's planned Cheam station on Cheam Road to the south. The station opened on 5 January 1930 when full services on the line were extended from South Merton.

Services

Throughout the day Thameslink operates 2 trains per hour to St Albans via Wimbledon and London Blackfriars, and 2 trains per hour to Sutton. Services to Sutton then continue back to St Albans via Mitcham Junction.
Additionally, on weekdays Southern operates a limited service anticlockwise around the loop to London Bridge via Sutton and Mitcham Junction and clockwise to London Bridge via Wimbledon.

Connections

serve the station.