Belmont railway station (Sutton)

Belmont National Rail
Belmont is located in Greater London
Belmont
Belmont
Location of Belmont in Greater London
LocationBelmont
Local authorityLondon Borough of Sutton
Managed bySouthern
Station code(s)BLM
DfT categoryF1
Number of platforms1
AccessibleYes[1]
Fare zone5
National Rail annual entry and exit
2018–19Increase 0.157 million[2]
2019–20Increase 0.180 million[2]
2020–21Decrease 57,358[2]
2021–22Increase 0.108 million[2]
2022–23Increase 0.145 million[2]
Key dates
22 May 1865Opened as California
1 October 1875Renamed Belmont
Other information
External links
Coordinates51°20′38″N 0°11′55″W / 51.344°N 0.1986°W / 51.344; -0.1986
London transport portal
The station in 1961

Belmont railway station serves the village of Belmont in the London Borough of Sutton in south London. The station is located on the Epsom Downs line and is in Travelcard Zone 5. It is 16 miles 1 chain (16.01 miles, 25.77 km) down the line from London Bridge measured via West Croydon.[3] It is the closest station to the Royal Marsden Hospital, which is just under half a mile away. On 19 January 2023, Sutton Council were granted £14,121,979 from the government to add a turnback siding to the south of the station to increase capacity to let services run at 4 tph instead of the current 2 tph service pattern.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ "Network Map". Southern. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  3. ^ Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 22. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
  4. ^ "LBC".
  5. ^ "Trains from Sutton to the London Cancer Hub to double in frequency". 19 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Levelling up Funding will double train services to Belmont in Surrey". 19 January 2023.