Hurst Green railway station

File:Crowhurst, Edenbridge & Hurst Green Boscare(Bodmin) Waterloo RJD 126.jpg

A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Hurst Green railway station.

Hurst Green railway station is on the Oxted line in southern England and serves the Hurst Green neighbourhood of Oxted in Surrey. It is Template:Miles-chains from Template:Stn. The station is managed by Southern.

History

The Oxted line opened between Template:Rws and Template:Rws on 10 March 1884.Template:Sfn At the time, the Hurst Green area was lightly populated and no station was provided, although a goods siding was added in 1885 for the use of local businesses.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Hurst Green Junction was commissioned on 2 January 1888, when services began on the line to Template:Rws and Template:Rws.Template:Sfn "Hurst Green Halt", immediately north of the junction, was opened on 1 July 1907Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn and was initially served by autotrains worked by D1 class locomotives.Template:Sfn

The population of Oxted grew in the mid-1950s, with house building to the south of the town centre.Template:Sfn Work to expand and relocate Hurst Green Halt to better serve this area of development began in April 1960.Template:Sfn The replacement station, renamed simply "Hurst Green", opened to the north of the original on 12 June 1961. It was provided with 12-carriage platforms to enable East Grinstead trains to be split from or joined to those serving Template:Rws, but these operations were carried out at Template:Rws instead.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Hurst Green Junction signal box closed on 11 July 1987, in connection with the electrification and resignalling of the line between Template:Rws and East Grinstead.Template:Sfn

Facilities

Hurst Green station is from Template:Rws via Template:RwsTemplate:Sfn and is managed by Southern. On the London-bound platform is a staffed ticket office (open during most of the day) and a self-service passenger-operated ticket machine is located outside the station on the London-bound side.

Services

Off-peak, all services at Hurst Green are operated by Southern using Template:Brc DMUs and Template:Brc EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

• 1 tph to London Victoria (stopping)
• 1 tph to Template:Stn (runs non-stop between Oxted and East Croydon)
• 1 tph to East Grinstead
• 1 tph to Uckfield

During the peak hours and on weekends, the service between London Victoria and East Grinstead is increased to 2 tph. On Sundays, northbound services on the Uckfield branch terminate at Oxted instead of London Bridge.

In addition, there are also a number of peak hour Thameslink services between East Grinstead, London Bridge and Bedford, which are operated using Template:Brc EMUs.

Preceding station	National Rail National Rail			Following station
Oxted		Southern Template:Smalldiv Template:Smalldiv		Lingfield
		Thameslink Template:Smalldiv Template:Smalldiv
		Southern Template:Smalldiv Template:Smalldiv		Edenbridge Town

External links

• Train times and station information for Hurst Green railway station from National Rail