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Dorking Deepdene railway station is a railway station in the town of Dorking, Surrey, England. Located on the North Downs Line, it lies 29 miles 65 chains (29.81 miles, 47.98 km) from London Victoria (via Redhill).[1] The station is one of three within Dorking, alongside Dorking West (elsewhere on the North Downs line) and Dorking (on the Mole Valley line). The station is within walking distance of Dorking station[2] and interchange on a through ticket is permitted.

Dorking Deepdene
The platforms at Dorking Deepdene, looking west
General information
Location	Dorking, District of Mole Valley England
Coordinates	51.239°N 0.325°W / 51.239; -0.325
Grid reference	TQ171501
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	DPD
Classification	DfT category F1
History
Original company	Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway
Pre-grouping	South Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
1 February 1851 (1851-02-01)	Station opened as Box Hill and Leatherhead Road
March 1851	Renamed Box Hill
1 January 1917	Temporarily closed
1 January 1919	Reopened
9 July 1923	Renamed Deepdene
11 May 1987	Renamed Dorking (Deepdene)
Passengers
2016/17	0.398 million
Interchange	0.200 million
2017/18	0.442 million
Interchange	0.262 million
2018/19	0.441 million
Interchange	0.270 million
2019/20	0.407 million
Interchange	0.262 million
2020/21	90,096
Interchange	82,960
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Dorking Deepdene is managed by Great Western Railway, which also operates all services through the station.

The station has two platforms, each long enough to accommodate a four-carriage train.[3] It is unstaffed and has no ticket office.[4] Tickets can be bought on trains, at the automatic ticket machine at the entrance to the station,[4] or at the ticket office at nearby Dorking station, which sells tickets for all National Rail services.[5] The station is located on an embankment above street level and the platforms can only be reached by steps;[4] passengers who require step-free access are advised to instead use Dorking West station, approximately 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) to the west, which is fully wheelchair-accessible.[6]

History

The Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway (RG&RR) was authorised in 1846 and opened in stages. One of the first parts to open was between Redhill and Dorking, on 4 July 1849;[7] the terminus was at the present-day Dorking West station.

A second station in Dorking (what is now Dorking Deepdene) was not built until 1 February 1851; when it opened, it was originally named "Box Hill and Leatherhead Road" and it was shortened to "Box Hill" in March the same year.[8] The RG&RR was soon absorbed by the South Eastern Railway (SER).[7]

The station at Box Hill was temporarily closed from 1 January 1917, and reopened on 1 January 1919.[8] In the 1923 grouping the SER became part of the new Southern Railway, which on 9 June of that year renamed the station "Deepdene" to avoid confusion with Box Hill & Westhumble station.[9] On 11 May 1987 British Railways renamed the station "Dorking (Deepdene)".[10]

Services

The typical off-peak service pattern (Monday to Sunday) is two trains per hour each way between Reading and Redhill; one train per hour continues beyond Redhill to and from Gatwick Airport.[11] Services to and from Gatwick call only at principal stations en route, while those to and from Redhill stop at most intermediate stations in both directions.[11] Service frequency is reduced to hourly or two-hourly during the evenings.[11]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Guildford or Gomshall or Dorking West		Great Western Railway North Downs Line		Betchworth or Reigate

Future proposals

In November 2018, a £21 million upgrade of Dorking Deepdene station was proposed by the Dorking Town Forum, who submitted a nomination for funding from Network Rail.[12][13] The proposal includes:

• relocation of the platforms east of the current site (immediately west of the bridge over the Mole Valley line);
• construction of two new lifts, to allow step-free access to both platforms, and a pair of new waiting rooms;
• a direct foot link between Dorking Deepdene and Dorking stations, by means of a new 100-metre (330 ft)-long walkway constructed along the western edge of the Mole Valley line.

References

External links

• Train times and station information for Dorking Deepdene railway station from National Rail

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