St Margarets National Rail
St Margarets is located in Greater London
St Margarets
St Margarets
Location of St Margarets in Greater London
LocationSt Margarets
Local authorityLondon Borough of Richmond upon Thames
Managed bySouth Western Railway
Station codeSMG
DfT categoryC2
Number of platforms3
Fare zone4
National Rail annual entry and exit
2018–19Increase 1.413 million[1]
2019–20Decrease 1.320 million[1]
2020–21Decrease 0.281 million[1]
2021–22Increase 0.650 million[1]
2022–23Increase 0.820 million[1]
Key dates
2 October 1876Opened
Other information
External links
WGS8451°27′18″N 0°19′13″W / 51.455°N 0.3204°W / 51.455; -0.3204
 London transport portal

St Margarets railway station, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south-west London, is in Travelcard Zone 4. It was opened by the London & South Western Railway on 2 October 1876[2] on the existing line from Waterloo to Windsor. It is a minor stop, 10 miles 66 chains (17.4 km) down the line from Waterloo.

The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway. The station entrance is at the east end, nearer to London. The station is sometimes shown as St Margarets (London) to differentiate it from the station of the same name in Hertfordshire.

Services

The typical off-peak service of eight trains per hour all terminating at Waterloo comprises:

Its trains towards London call at platform 1; almost all call at all stations to Waterloo (nationally known as stopping services). This island platform also faces the fast London-bound track as platform 2 (disused for getting off/boarding). Other trains call at the outbound platform (Platform 3).

Public transport and footways to all-services station

The station is a short bus journey to major stop Twickenham railway station from the end of its street. South of the tracks a parallel street has pavements to both sides to the same station, less circuitously.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Richmond   South Western Railway
Waterloo–Reading line
  Twickenham

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  2. Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1988). Waterloo to Windsor. Middleton Press. p. 64. ISBN 0-906520-54-1.
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